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“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,”

Excerpt From: John Green. “Paper Towns.” Apple Books.

but here was Mr. Robertson and she was not invisible to him. not when he looked at her like that - she couldn't be. (still there was her inner tendency to flee, recrudescence of self-doubt.)

i've gotten over the ominousness of the opening third and the tragedy of their being kicked out and am now thoroughly enjoying this memoir style tale in the guise of a coming of age story.

almost half in-malevolent stepmother story now yielding to a coming of age story where the son realizes he's like his mysterious real-estate amassing father, the one who died of a heart attack climbing 6 flights of stairs. the voice is true, the details fascinating - whether about the eponymous dutch house or the slumlord business or the relationship between he and his beloved sister/mother in chief Maeve.

i just read Olive kitteridge and Olive again back to back so def didn't intend to read another set of short stories. But nonetheless, i found Curtis' voice and point of view about the modern human condition - particularly vis a vis going to schools in the northeast (dartmouth, prep schools) really well made. The title story is DEVASTATING. I really truly got it, for better or for worse.

on 60 of 191, beautiful anorexic nina has just died and i have just realized that this book is sneaky brilliant, like ya for grownups but with more thoughtful writing, and incredibly insightful inner thoughts from men and women together (often on both sides of a husband and wife relationship).

sept 26 thurs 12:16am- should i stay up all night and finish this? it's getting scarier and scarier and i'm bumming that she's most likely dead but feel like i just want to get this over with.