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wow this book is so long! i like it though

I really wanted to like this book but I may abandon it soon. I feel like the author already made her point about the lead, but isn’t expanding much or adding to the topic. The story doesn’t feel cohesive, I feel like I’m just reading about smelters, a brief grizzly killing, then hearing about the author’s abusive father.

man i fucking hate rufus

okay the book is definitely getting more interesting! there is more of a point to her husband being white. sucks that the isn’t here to protect Alice instead of Rufus

oh man. this book is pretty intense to read because it’s so graphic. interesting that her husband kevin is a white dude.

part of book bingo summer reading challenge! idk why octavia tends to pair up her female protagonist with a white boy/man. in this sense it’s not romantical, but like… what’s up with that. i’m referring to “fledging” so i guess that only one other book

very interesting so far!

oop - reading this for bookclub, gonna send TWs in the discord. men are gross

i’m going to finish this book within a day; i fear

i am struggling

ehh getting stale

what a slog! i read 2-3% before bed because it makes me tired. i’m reading this for book club but the way murakami writes about women in insufferable. why, in every 2% increment, is a woman’s chest or physique discussed and sexualized? no one is exempt, not older women, not children, UGH!!!! i will likely be slowly reading this book for years.

oops got my pages mixed up

Got to the part of the book where i can’t read it at it at night because it’ll make me cry :(

pretty interesting premise so far! easy to read