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Interested to see how my students take to this….

Cuz if I don’t read at least one horror novel this month, I’ll cease to be

Based on the damage I’ve done to the introduction, I predict I will be fully draining a highlighter or two on this baby.
(Also, yes this is for class)
(Also had no idea Ellison wrote essays, so I’m very hype because Invisible Man is one of my favorite books)

So good but so dense

Just another book for class and such

“I’ve long since moved away from myself; I’ve left a part of me behind. It’s not that I want any of the time back—no, just that there are reminders, everywhere I go, of a life I lived. A memory of before—memories of before. And though I wish I could, I can’t explain why some stand out like yesterday when the details of so many others have left me. So much of childhood’s a haze, but fragments remain.

“I sit in the passenger seat, and I look back to the road. And I worry, sometimes, about how memory exaggerates. How it might create from nothing. I worry that what I believe I’ve lived, that what I’ve seen, isn’t really how life happened. That it’s just one version of the truth: in some ways, maybe, a false belief.”

“It’s a sound like muscle memory, and my body seeks out something like an answer. First there’s fear, and then there’s knowing. An understanding. (Remembering.) That everything sings out for a reason. To find something, maybe, what’s been lost. Each other.”

I can’t handle how perfect the prose is 😫😫

Revisiting for class prep

Yes I’m already re-reading this cuz we ended up having to read it for class

Add it to the syllabus!

“In other words, if I loved a piece of music, I couldn’t keep it to myself. If a friend of mine came over, they listened—they were forced to listen. Otherwise it was like holding on to a secret, and I never did so well with secrets. […] I wanted to relearn the music all over again through my friend. […] Listening together was a way to touch someone without ever having to extend a finger.”

I’m in love

Really loving this

We love a buddy read, and this one is very much delivering so far