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Abandoned due to racist descriptions of different tribes of Africa. It might’ve been acceptable to publish way back but it’s wholly unpalatable now

The unreliable narrator sh*t is old

Ugh, this is a rough go

Finally getting over the no-punctuation

So much anxiety about the children

Interesting “birds” technology that scans at quantum level to look for places of structural failure

Hoping she would dispose of the General

So entertained

Dolly Parton reference 🤓

So fucked up. Love it.

Drawing me in... what happened to Nelson? Who is the narrator?

“I didn’t want to think about how it was unfair that some people had it so much worse when I’d already committed to fixating on people who had it so much better.”

DNF

everything coming together and it's giving me book anxiety

Blah. Abandoned.

"Although the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, three-fourths of all people imprisoned for drug offenses are black or Latino."

This book would be much better if it focused more on the many different tribes that live(d) in the Amazon rainforest rather than the activities of one white Anglo-Saxon dead man. Not sure I'll finish.

Jaime's dead? What do the rest of the 9 books in he series talk about then??

DNF - returned to library twice before I finished

"As it turns out, you don't have to choose between being honest and being effective. You don't have to choose between candor and your career. People who routinely hold crucial conversations and hold them well are able to express controversial and even risky opinions in a way that gets heard."

"Kolya isn't sure if the conversation ever actually took place, or if the lunacy governing his present life is so omnipotent it's changed his past."

"The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. the majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous than others."

"She wanted to say something about when you have a child it changes the way you feel when you're alone, how you're never alone in the same way again because there is a live, independently thinking part of you out in the world that you can never fully push out of your awareness, even if you try."

"Because it’s true: more than the highlights, the bright events, it was in the small and the daily where she’d found life."

We're supposed to care about Lotto? he's rather lazy and boring...