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“You need money to do anything you know?

My husband’s dead for 5 years now and I still owe for his 2 hour funeral.

Even dying cost money. It can cost more than living”

😅

“This book therefore ends not with answers but with a wish:

I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don’t hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions.

Someday I will.”


Oh this was raw & heartbreaking- with the context of the author’s passing, even more devastating 😔💔

“There was a time I like women more than men which was great cause I could escape the male gaze.

I liked girls so I didn’t need to look good to men and it didn’t matter that men didn’t like me.

I think that was really comfortable for me psychologically.”

💔

I’m growing tired of utopian fiction about the Global South that reads as pretentious, leaning rather than authentic.

I’m unclear what Osunde is aiming for here.There were many opportunities to engage meaningfully with systemic issues,to imagine an ideal without exaggeration. The performance here flattens what could have been deemed necessary.

This has been a slog to get through. I hope I finish this.🫠

“Only what you think of yourself matters and even that is debatable. “

🎯

“You can perform miracles with your imagination when you are not normal, and you will. But you might be lonely.”

Someone please tell me this gets better? I have picked this up 3 times already 😭🫠

“I just hope you learn to differentiate the parts from the whole.

Just because you like one thing about a person, you don’t need to like everything about them.

And just because you don’t like one thing about a person, it doesn’t mean the person as a whole isn’t worth your time.” ❤️


Why does booktok hate this therapist? I don’t get it. I think she’s eating so far 🤣

“I feel like I have a craving desire for attention. I want people to think I’m special and this leads me to lie. When I tell a story, I tend to exaggerate because I want the other person to laugh. . .”


This is so heartbreaking. 💔

“Sometimes the best thing to do with people who would never listen to you in the first place is to avoid them all together.

To right every wrong you come across in the world will be an impossible endeavor in the world for any one person.

You’re just one person, and you’re putting too much of the weight of the world on yourself.”

🎯

So the crying of lot 49 simply means the auctioning of lot 49? 😆

Pynchon is brilliant. What a mind !!! 😊😆

Oedipa Maas reads like man!

I can’t wait to review this book. I have so many thoughts.

Like what??? 🙄🫠🤣

“He was a dedicated teacher - one whose dedication blinded him to anything that went on outside the classroom or at most outside the halls of the university.”

Wow! This was so good!!!

This read like a biography - the realism in this is unmatched. Also this reminded me of Szalay’s ‘Flesh’. I need more books like this 😩🥰😍

Who has recommendations?

I just finished chapter 14!!! WHAT???

I’m so tickled 🤭

Now that’s what I’m talking about!!! Petty Stoner 🤣🤗❤️🔥🥰

‘I didn’t think people invented anymore. Who’s there been really since Thomas Edison?

Isn’t it all team work now?’

‘Team work is really a way to avoid responsibility. It is a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society’


LMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣

“Woke up no light
Woke up to a phone call. Life insurance gone up

America is obsessed with the runway
See but don’t touch
Rich but no money in the bank
Diverse but no black folks in the building “

Ms. Motley, The writer that you are!!! 🔥😩😍🥰❤️

OMG!!! Walker is so annoying and insufferable!!! 😩😭🫠

“It’s a town where high school kids having no where to go on Friday nights, park their step father’s trucks in the unlit edges of the Walmart parking lot, drinking Smirnoffs out of Poland spring bottles and blasting Weezer and lil Wayne until they look down one night and find a baby in their arms and realize they are 30 something . . .”

❤️😍🥰

I like how Pynchon takes time to explain the art(film, music, TV)that his characters engage with. It feels unnecessary by conventional standards and is something most writers would cut.It comes across as meandering but also creates a childlike sense of wonder,as if the reader is Alice in Wonderland, wandering rather than being led.

Also I like how time warps and doesn’t matter. The narration is driven by events.

“‘You want to bet on what would happen?’

‘Of course not. The movie’s made’”


Oh I LOVE THIS!!! 😍😩❤️

I was going to start Shadow Tickets, but a friend told me this is one of the more accessible Pynchons.

First Impressions: Very unique and strong voice, in fact - almost fearless. Specific and atypical diction. Strange and interesting narrative choices so far, bordering on whimsical chaos.

Why on earth is someone breaking into a song with lyrics right in the middle of a scene???

Here for it though. 🤣

This book has me laughing, sighing, saying ‘WTF is actually going on’, ‘What did I miss?’ all at the same time.

This is such a trippy book.

😂🤣😂

“Replicated services are primarily used for stateless services while shards are used for stateful service.

Sharding is not exclusive to stateful services though. They can also be used to isolate poisoned requests”

💡

“People always talked about having children as an event, as a thing that took place.

They forgot that not having children was also something that took place. That is to say it wasn’t a question of absence, a question of lack.

It had its own presence in the world. It was its own event.”

😍❤️

“You pull at the ropes tied to the statue.

You pull and nothing happens.

And then you pull and pull again and the whole thing topples over.”

😍

“Two people who want the same thing would never generate the same intensity as two people who want different things”

❤️

“Almost nothing about the way people live in New York makes any sense. . . Least of all when it comes to money”

🤣🎯

A case for / against reparations:

“I want a return of the vertebrae I was born without. I have contorted, bent, braced, ached like earthquake return to fault line.

I want an acre for every apology that never materialized in sound”

OMG!!! This is so BEAUTIFUL!!! My heart!!!😫😍🥰

“Marriages are nesting dolls too. . .

Somewhere at the center is the tiniest doll - Love. The love that started everything. It’s still there but we have to open and open and open ourselves. . .our together selves to find it“

❤️

Maggie girl, are you spilling this tea or not???

What’s going on ???

This isn’t the time to be poetic. I came here for tea. It’s a memoir 😭🫠🤣

“There was no way he would have to spend Christmas alone.

Many women like men like him. Someone who never gave you what you wanted. Someone who’d leave you at the drop of a hat. The certainty that he’d walk out one day would fool many a woman that he was the only man for them. “

❤️