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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

this is so fucking funny

me, despite having read the original trilogy more than once: haymitch lives happily ever after or we ride at dawn

what's going ON

"Can you cut up a country as though it were cake?"
s h i t

"People approve of Deepa because she is quiet and useful and does the tedious jobs. She keeps her burkha on — even the veil — with charming, small-town modesty. Best of all, she expresses no opinions, and who does not like that in a woman" I AM SEETHING

um wtf?

this is very interpreter of maladies-esque i’m excited

oh what the fuck

picking up pace at 70 percent is crazy