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So she's a calculating coward, too. And she's trying to give the reader excuses for why she DIDN'T act like a better person. The only enjoyable part of this experience now is the expats and how they interact with each other. Protect them at all costs.

This narrator is actually a pretty shitty person and I don't like being in her head. She's self-centered, smug, and incurious with the moral backbone of a snail.

This is the most interesting, sad part of the book so far - Marsha's care of her friends during the AIDS crisis and her activism to end discrimination and help get proper medical care.

I would be way more into this if the narrator (author) wasn't so mid at reading out loud.

I take issue with the idea that Lidia North is "innocent". Even if she refuses to tell the truth in court because of the consequences she would suffer and the lack of coverture (because he sure as shit isn't going to allow it), she is still defending him VOCIFEROUSLY. That's a person burying their head in the ground and she DOES bear culpability for that. So..,no, I'm not gonna fault Martha.

This is just uncomfortable and not in a fun way. The horror is not horrifying in the way the author means it, largely because the cast of the story is too busy in their own feels about their own stories to truly register what is happening around them. That, or they're very dumb.

Picking this back up while waiting on other holds.
Idc what Jessi's deal is, she's annoying and not a good friend. These people are all being very obviously (to the reader) possessed.

"security solutions for a fundamentally political problem"

This is not making me hate it here any less. Just further proof that this country is and always has been racist and will probably never get over it as long as people like the ones he is talking about exist and are allowed to hold public office.

This is a case of I think the author should not have been the narrator

And this, y'all, is why you don't let crazy people be your problem

Idk if this is a good mental break from Educated, but I hope Marsha can lift my spirits

I'm having rage flashbacks to academia