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Milady! Mimosa! Some Trees down.

Can’t wait for this to be over

I have high confidence already that this will continue to be a 5 star experience

why am i forcing myself through this?

i really don't like white boys' nostalgic goop? im only thinking of movies right now but licorice pizza, the fabelmans. semi-autobiographical bildungsromans that, even if they are led by an intelligent or sweet or self-deprecating boy just ring so hollow to me

What is the point of this. Is it worse Bill Bryson for Gen X?

This is pretty saccharine but M Streep is keeping me going

A page turner !!! Not even halfway through and we’ve already met 3 (?) presidents and Shirley Temple

this book is WILD i am listening on spotify and not taking any breaks

there is one point where julia calls a friend and is like "oh hey im in the insane asylum LOL whats up i know we haven't spoken in a couple years" and the friend says "have you been hearing voices? bc i started to..." and julia cuts her off to be like "oh no just a suicide attempt whatever do you wanna party tomorrow"

This is SO badly written but I still want to know what happens

Hitting a wall

Unnecessary personal challenge: can I read this before seeing Oppenheimer?

So far things are looking up!

“Speech is a clumsiness and writing an impoverishment. Not language but the surface of the body is the child’s first map of the world, undifferentiated between subject and object, coextensive with the world it maps until awakening consciousness divides it off.”

What is this passage doing in here, wild