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I’m enamored with these poems already. They feel like how I write. They resonate with me deeply. I keep thinking about them and playing them over in my mind.

I even already have a whole series of poems that are How To’s and written in the imperative as well.

I vow to finish this book… one day…

This book is stressful.

This book is a balm for wedding planning anxiety.

I’ve been reading this book, slowly, for over a year now and honestly it has made such a difference to that year. Not too much left now.

So close. Such a slog

So close. Such a slog

I didn’t expect this book to be /this/ good.

Book 3 > everything else
Things are hitting their stride and I am HERE FOR IT

Very compelling but the narrator does 100% put me to sleep every time. Maybe should have done this as a regular book— not audio book.

Very very very very very slow going on my part. Daniel is reading it alongside me. He started after me and has quickly surpassed me.

who wants to tell me why I choose to listen to this on my commute to and from work everyday, in the days directly leading up to my 24th birthday.
I get dragged, very helpfully but still, every gd morning.

This book is overstated but there is a lot it’s provided perspective on for me. The audiobook however is wildly monotone

Not a huge fan. Set this aside in favor of another book and just now returning. Might as well finish it because I’m already halfway through, ya know?

I like to think I’m making good time!
It wasn’t hard when all I wanted was to keep reading and dive deeper into the story.
Hit a lull in the story though and need to regain interest.

correction of last update

very grateful to finally learn more about the current world she lives in. vastly more interesting and less depressing than all the memories of her old life

Every single part of chapter 22

“There was only one way for the Earth to be, [Trout] thought: the way it was.
Everything was necessary. He saw an old white woman fishing through a garbage can. That was necessary. He saw a bathtub toy, a little rubber duck, lying on its side on the grating over a storm sewer. It /had/ to be there.
And so on.” pg 105-106

“I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” said the driver.
“I won’t know myself until I find out whether /life/ is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s /serious/, too.”

“Dwayne’s incipient insanity was mainly a matter of chemicals, of course. Dwayne Hoover’s body was manufacturing certain chemicals which unbalanced his mind. But Dwayne, like all novice lunatics, needed some bad ideas, too, so that all his craziness could have shape and direction.
Bad chemicals and bad ideas were the Yin and Yang of madness.”
pg. 13-14

“As I’ve mentioned, Tarbean has two main sections: Hillside and Waterside. Waterside was poor. Hillside was rich. Waterside stank. Hillside was clean. Waterside had thieves. Hillside had bankers— I’m sorry, burglars.” pg. 206