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I am clapping my hands like a delighted toddler at this Derry section; I had no idea

Idk if you wanna be here man, what with the events of the first half of It just happening after all

Oh my goddddd YESSS

This is about where I dropped off the first time (I don’t remember why), but funny enough, the description of the root beer has been with me ever since

This book has done nothing but clock me and idk if that’s helpful or not 🥴

Adored the first section

Frankly feeling like I need to be It’s A Wonderful Life’d (not gonna kill myself no concern there) but in the meantime I’m just gonna read books about somehow accepting working for 50+ years

“In the afternoon when school was out and the last one had left with his little dirty snuffling nose, instead of going home I would go down the hill to the spring where I could be quiet and hate them” lmao

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not.

Obsessed with “smoothing at the wrinkles which he made and which continue to emerge beneath his hand with perverse ubiquity.”

Adding “perverse ubiquity” to a mental vocab notebook

One of the craziest, most compelling chapters I’ve ever read in fiction. (Noting that I read it while muted with my camera off in a Zoom meeting at work)

I have finished creating new lectures and I am So Back

Read half of this for a course in undergrad, coming back to reread/finish

Reading alongside my CBU students