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Beautifully written! Really emphasizes how difficult it is to be a woman; went as far as dealing with a devil just so she could escape the chains of societal expectation on women. I love love love this book!

Well that was a cliffhanger. What happened to Carolina and Rey though? So far this book has shown me what Philippines, the unacknowledged colonial project of America, is like. We've been through dark streets, call center mishaps, taxi cabs, late nights, and so many ironic sexual encounters between races. What else is left in the last 25% of the book?

Reading this slowly, but it's alright. This book is really devastating, as Gina Apostol said. The postcolonial brood is dark but nevertheless, well-written.

this is stupid why am i even reading this. lol.

so GOOD! spending the weekend just reading. i can’t put the book down.

For some reason, I enjoy reading bad reviews. They are the funniest. Haha.

Warm, warm. What quiet life I’m living through Sontag in 1957.

sweet jezus who HURT YOU GILLIAN

Aww damn it. I’m already 90% sure of what the family has medically on chapter 4! 🥺

0211H

My heart aches but whatever. Aciman could cut down the unnecessary words and ease on the commas! but, ergh, meh. We push through! Last 2 chapters here we go.

the writing is GLORIOUS and just BEAUTIFUL, no doubt. but my gosh there is such a thing such as paragraphs! and other punctuation marks! and let me just BREATHE as i read. i get it, you’re the socrates to plato’s proust but oh please.. gaaaah. 🤣

“ ‘where did they invent you?’ i said when we were resting. what i meant to say was i didn’t know what life was before this. so i quoted goethe again.”

daaaamn bro. 🤭

“i quoted words by goethe: ‘everything in my life was merely prologue until now, merely delay, merely pastime, merely waste of time until i came to know you.’ “

after two years i am now reading normally as i would again! any recommendations? looking for a light read to accompany márquez’s one hundred years of solitude & sontag’s diaries.

ehrk a dystopian lit that mirrors some aspects of the current society hidden in a love story is interesting.

"...it seems to me that the meaning of man's life consists of proving to himself ever minute that he's a man and not a piano key. And man will keep proving it and paying for it with his own skin; he will turn into a troglodyte if need be."