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This book is crazy. I switch between thinking its a mind-blowing masterpiece and hating it so much. This book is unlike anything I have read before, and I am hooked. The last chapter really took me by surprise

Its been a very long time since I have stayed up till 3 in the morning reading. The book has begun to hook me

This book has such a strange undercurrent of misogyny throughout that makes it sort of uncomfortable to read. I wonder if there is a point to it that will be uncovered when I finish reading. If not, I understand why I DNF'd a few years ago

There are moments in Baldwin's books that can only be accomplished through his deep characterization. The people in his novels feel real, the world and situations they are in are so vivid and the payoff is incredible.

First few poems weren't grabbing me but now I'm in. Some really great ones in this section

Didn't know Whitman had the juice like this.

I Sing the Body Electric is the type of poem Emglish nerds used to memorize 100 years ago- lowkey I should too

When I finish this book I might die

This book is like really, really good

Some of these poems are long as hell!

This book this book this book

Napoleon is lying to you girl 😭😭😭

Man, Song of Myself is sooooo good

"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood."

This book is so so crazy

Starating this book again and this time I WILL finish it. I want to finish it. I WILL

Finally getting around to it and enjoying it a lot!

Soooo good. Getting better as I read

This book is really incredible

Man this book is so fucking good lol

"In the barely controlled trembling of that child's hand, Arthur saw, unwillingly, the terrified intransigence which is the key to beauty. It made her a stranger. It made him want to be her friend. Her anguish made her real. It uncovered her youth. It revealed her age."

"And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
And of these one and all I weave the song of myself."

This month's book club pick! I am loving it so far. Was not expecting magical realism but it is very welcome!