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From the first sentence I couldn’t put it down. Is it embarrassing that I’m just now reading it? Yes. But it’s a classic for a reason and I feel grateful to savor it with my 35 year old mind rather than a 20 something mind or, God forbid, a teenage mind. It was riveting, and I could highlight every line for the sheer poetry of it, I would. Sylvia was a true genius.

From the first sentence I couldn’t put it down. Is it embarrassing that I’m just now reading it? Yes. But it’s a classic for a reason and I feel grateful to savor it with my 35 year old mind rather than a 20 something mind or, God forbid, a teenage mind. It was riveting, and I could highlight every line for the sheer poetry of it, I would. Sylvia was a true genius.

Hey so next time someone tries to cite the media or the internet as the reason we're all headed to hell in a handbasket, pick this book up, and we'll talk about our disbelief that this ish went on (and is still going on in some places) without some higher being saying "Alright, you all clearly can't handle how to be people so I'm calling the apocolypse early"