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just torturing myself by listening to more of this story. Giselle Pelicot's daughter.

promising so far!

A good look into how you get to the Supreme Court and what the work looks like.

The first 30% of the book is a lot of work! I feel like I might fly through the rest. It requires a lot of journaling.

I don't agree with her personal beliefs but it does seem that she takes her job of interpreting the Constitution very seriously, which I respect

Loving this but need to read faster!

May this woman live the rest of her life in goddamn peace!

did I miss something or is this intentionally vague? the protagonist disappeared or went underground when he was like 15?

I feel like we need to focus all of the world's efforts on solving our obsession with sex...

She lived thru something incomprehensible and I want to learn from her strength. Emma Thompson reads the audiobook perfectly.

no plot yet but enjoying it!

“But the word “radicalize” feels wrong, seems to imply an element of extremism, as though rage at this kind of blatant hypocrisy is the abnormal thing, when what is plainly abnormal is to accept it.”

Trying to finish it today!

Quote:
"No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to justice...Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul."

Someone is waiting for my copy so I'm stopping here. It's interesting but I think I'll be happy to just consume it as a film.

This book is "hard sci-fi" meaning they're using real science to explain what's happening. It's a lot of numbers and words I don't totally comprehend but it's somehow exciting. The movie will have to make it more digestible.

It's got its hooks in me!

I was about to stop reading (it's feeling cheesy) but then came the mom's response to getting judged for not circumcising her son: "If a baby boy needs open-heart surgery, leave that poor kid's dick alone." and also "Doreen, if Rob really said it was OK for his mommy to call and bother me with this shit, then his own circumcision took off too much." 💀⚰️

more heartbreaking than when she wrote that she would never commit suicide is when she admitted that she attempted multiple times.

Pretty concerning when she mentions how she wrote that if she ended up dead, don't believe it's an accident and "I am in no way, shape, or form, suicidal"...

I really wish book characters were smarter. Do you think you've been drugged? Call 911 and tell them so, then try to throw up. Is this your first day on Earth?

Murder happened. Unless there's a twist, I think we all know who did it. I really just wish this woman would tell the truth but I guess that wouldn't be as exciting.

no murder yet but lots of sex!