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not the jab we met ripoff??

too late to dnf?

nothing is holding my attention these days 😞

i'm having a blast with this but my god the casual racism is WILD. i have to keep reminding myself that this book is over a hundred years old & written by a brit (not saying that that justifies it but yeah) at the height of colonialism in india

the blatant racism in the prose... i have no words

due to personal reasons, i will not be finishing this book. thank you.

He had to admit that I was alive, that I was someone. I wanted him to boast about me to the customers tomorrow. That would make it all real. If he knew I was his son, then I would be a person.

With all the things I had learned—in all the languages I had mastered—all I could say to her, standing on the porch staring at me, was, "Maaaa." Like a dry-mouthed lamb at the udder.

WHAT IF I K1LLED MYSELR

"This is a story about memories and about letting go. It’s about fear and love, and how they seem to go hand in hand most of the time. Most of all, it’s about time. While we still have it. Thank you for giving this story yours."

how do you not five star a book you haven't even read yet when it opens with that :(

that time of the year when i start rifling through the very, very-tiny-list-that-gets-tinier-every-year of fredrik backman novellas i haven't read yet to to finish my reading challenge

very promising start