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This book may take me an entire year to finish lmao

okay im re-reading Cat's cradle im SORRY

This book is pretty fantastic so far

Did not think this would make for such a stressful read, but I am enjoying it a LOT nonetheless.

This book is stressing me out. I think i'm going to love it just as much as I did Animal Farm, if not more. It scares me that so many can read this book and interpret it in a way that supports their particular goals. Maybe that fear is hyperbolic or unwarranted. All it takes is one glance to form a connection. Humans are incapable of true, unconditional, separation. Our existence is a function of other people

"I want to be an honest man and a good writer."

This book just keeps getting better! I imagine I will finish it tomorrow

This book is banging. Let's hope the rest of it takes it home cuz I am very much enjoying it right now

dude. Caroline Bird.

Feeling extremely lucky to be able to share some Baldwin with my bestie and she has been enjoying it!! Thank you James Baldwin your art lives on ❤️

oh shit!!! its getting good!!

Finally picking this one up and now I'm thinking I should reread Autobiography of Red first and do them back to back so I can follow better

Better and better with every poem! Very much enjoying this one

Walt was cooking!!! love you so much king.

"A few carols vibrating through the air I leave,
For comrades and lovers."

This book is a real page-turner so far. Excited to see where it goes and hopeful that it will actually get scary at some point

Just finished the first story as part of our book club assignment, and it was quite good! Very, very, dark, but as usual some really vivid imagery and character development that builds a world beyond the 16 or so pages. Thank you, James!

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