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The first paragraph sucked me in and the chapter on food binding made me physically nauseous. Amazing book so far.

298/364

Concentration camp comparisons. More inferring causation from correlation and also more blaming women for their unequal life.

270/364

Someone should have explained to her that correlation =/= causation. Friedan seems to blame women for the feminine mystique. Also we've come to the homophobic parts as well. This book continues to be a disappointment. Also she's a Freudian somehow which is strange.

This isn't the version I'm reading so I'm actually on 246/364

I've liked this book less and less as I've read it but Chapter 10 is the worst by far. The whole chapter is about how housework is actually easy and housewives make it harder to feel better about their lives. There's probably a grain of wisdom in there but the author is so demeaning and pretentious I can't find it.

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It's taking a long time to read this book because I know it's not a happy ending and it's rough getting through it. I'm at the part where he escapes and was so excited for about 5 seconds until I remembered what I was reading and knew it wasn't going to last.

Got to the point where he was captured. I knew it was coming and still couldn't handle it. Also made me realize how absurd it is I've never read a book with a similar story line before. I can think of multiple books I've had to read from a white person's perspective about the slave trade but never from the prospective of the kidnapped person. I was rooting for Kunta so hard even though I knew what was going to happen