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This is my shit

Thoughts include: what is the value of intellectualism, sensory experience vs. cognitive experience (and intersections), does illness represent morality or lack thereof, isolated communities/subcultures, individuality vs. collectivism.

I love book club!!

War & Peace book club resounding success!! Reading a long book with other people and taking it seriously is the best, and W&P is of the richest books out there. It's got everything: military leaders falling asleep, fraternity rituals, horny glances at the opera, bad disguises, bears, impossible stomach wounds, the question of why people kill one another, the question of free will, and more. Love<3

Better this far in but still lacks good pacing, and there are so many barriers drawn up for dramatic effect that fall with basically no effort on the part of our characters; our mission objectives in this book are too big, too many, and unfocused

This book is exhausting so far ngl

Vol 1 Pt 1. Ur jealous of our W&P book club

"Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? ... Until you are a woman on the bricks, you have no idea how death stands in the corner, ready to play his part. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you do not know the power that rises from other women..."