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Every paragraph feels a breath of fresh air, like you’re breaking through some turbidity. Have you ever been the recipient of prophetic visions? If not, you can try reading this book to get a sense of what it’s like.

Semi-annual sharp objects reread will keep my new year’s fire burning

Enjoying this much more than I thought I would, and happy to be reading it with some anthropological experience :)

Really, really enjoying this so far

Interesting introduction to the topic so far

Rachilde they would have loved you on AO3…

Tbh I would also probably develop a substance addiction under these circumstances

Shrieked in delight when my favorite niche supporting character appeared

Michael ? Michael JACKSON ???

Peeta Mellark certified lover boy

Will my first creative writing project in months be Hunger Games fanfiction? Stay tuned to find out

I was really into this book when I first started it, but I feel the author is over-exhausting her point. I don’t really think this is her fault, just the nature of material. The general theme is that some women were pseudo-empowered by vehemently misogynistic institutions, yet subsequently became victims of those institutions. Does it make a difference if they’re Protestant or Catholic Nazis? Probably?

Lmfao at the supposed old Prussian adage: “If you will not be my brother, then I will bash your skull in.”

Reading this is bringing back so many memories and emotions from reading Huckleberry Finn for the first time in high school. I usually dislike reinterpretations of “classics,” but I genuinely think this book could become a classic in itself.

“You have a notion … of natural liberties. And we all have them by virtue of our being human. But when those liberties are put under societal and cultural pressure they become civil liberties, and those are contingent on hierarchy, and situation — am I close?”

I’m glad this book was released and could serve as my introduction to Everett. Erasure almost killed me, but I’ll get back to it eventually.

“Emotional and pseudo-scientific appeals elevated racial quackery to the level of ethical duty and in the process redirected the woman’s ‘mission’ from love to hatred.”

This book is so dense, yet so readable. The most difficult part has been dealing with the parallels between the society in Koonz’ analysis and our contemporary world.

“If the dead were truly to come back, what would they come back knowing? Could we face them- we who allowed them to die?

“Organizations surrendered. Opposition, when it occurred, came from individuals.”

“I find myself thinking about him whenever I decide that I, in fact, want to live. Or when I’m tasting something delicious and want to share it with him, or when I decide to leave where I am for somewhere else.”