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I bolt just now realized that it’s vines ok the traffic light with flowers and bit Christmas tree lights

I don’t understand the connection he is trying to make to the Sandusky and Madoff and Larry Nasser cases to Sandra Bland. But very interesting read! I do not understand the last line of this chapter at all

“This is the first idea to keep in mind when considering death of Sandra Bland. We think we want our guardians to be alert to every suspicion. Blame them when they default to truth….”

Idk where I put this book

There is more patriarchy than aliens in this and it’s starting to get annoying but I’m in too deep

Something unexpected, the repetition - crimes against humanity & needless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, or sometimes just a few dozen due to a few private citizens panicked actions, reminds me to remember Gaza, West Bank, Ukraine and Sudan. For us this is sci fi a “what if” for others it’s a real hell they live now. The planet suffers, humanity is whittled away, no change, just appealing bad aliens

This took me a while to get into
The first half sounded more like an actual travelogue than a novel and I kept zoning out
But the second half it is all coming together!!

Suspended between conviction and doubt - both seemed to me at once the product of my imagination and the truth

For a book set in hell where all the characters are magicians there is not a lot of magic happenin- lots of math and philosophy tho

5/5
Like I’ve been to a weird Hell or heaven and back

Slowly she turned to face him
he saw her expression was as serene as that of a Buddhist monk
Such uncanny serenity frightened him making him think perhaps this was a surface
impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment

What a book what a book - wild wild book
I need to have someone to talk to about this

Did not finish

Han Kang is one of the best writers I’ve read

Things are coming around after lagging in the middle a bit

I can tell this is gonna be a good one

Dark brooding violence

But also a hilariously oblivious husband and Koreans shocked at someone refusing to eat meat