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Recommended to my by Thục

This book is a doozy. The only thing that keeps me going is occasionally updating my reading status (much to Serafine’s disapproval).

There’s something about how nature, plants and some animals, is quiet and patient, while technology is birthed from the hurried and brilliant minds of thinkers who wanted more progress. Had the thinkers stopped to smell the roses, would they have been so keen on planting them behind a screen, soiling them in 0s and 1s, missing out on their their fragrance, texture, and vibrant color?

Reading due to Serafine’s urgent suggestion. Before starting, I want to reply to a sentence in a Goodreads book review “I had grown ready for this book. I would not have had patience ten years ago to follow from roots over trunk…” because it reminds me of my own childhood spent in front of the TV or on a laptop instead of out gardening or playing by the creek.

For my PC friends who told me to stop being ignorant

Pleasant read. Like walking in the park with a friend.

Something that struck me about the book is how the rising action was the most difficult section to digest. This is when Malcolm X becomes a huge representative and speaker for the ideas of the NOI. It’s a powerful section, rich in history and striking in emotionality, but it’s also the least personal section of the memoir. Perhaps because Malcolm X gives up his personhood to spread an idealogy.

My second read and I’m enjoying it even more.

Have to take a pause on this book.

Lately I’ve been laying horizontally too much, and letting life for all its beauty pass me by. I want to read more, just not in my room. I have two years of PC service. Surely, I can read some noteworthy books in the meantime.

Started as a recommendation by a friend

“He’s acting as if it’s a normal Monday, but it is not a normal Monday.”

Nope.

I’m gonna attempt to read more, but if it keeps going on like this:

“She would have laughed.
But not anymore.
Not now she’s forty-five.
Not now.
Now she’s simply disgusted.”

I won’t be able to finish. I don’t like telling over showing.

Robin and Remy met. Now I can finally relax. Relaxed so much that I cried a tear for Robin’s loneliness. The fact that life happened so quickly and forcefully for him that he never got to process it.

“Listen to me before my thumb finds the bad place at your throat.” This book is hilarious.

I forgot why I started this book