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forbidden BBQ

"... but despite my misery, let me finish dinner." same

yeah Telemachus is so real for that because what else is one supposed to do when there's a bunch of people trying to date your mum due to your dad being MIA for two decades

lowkey speedrunning this textbook

"this book is a surprisingly pleasant read but also an extremely unpleasant read" ~ my colleague

My thought process so far:
1. Yep now I remember the prose and the racial stuff
2. The landscape descriptions are absolutely breathtaking
3. OH. RIGHT. I FORGOT. I want to bleach my eyes

idk if it's a translation issue but this is doing my head in

this is absolutely unhinged and I love it

how is it possible for a textbook to be so engrossing

"The traumatic event challenges an ordinary person to become a theologian, a philosopher, and a jurist. [...] Survivors of atrocity at every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding."

I wanna punch this protagonist

Already shaping up to be a pretty heavy read, but the sociopolitical stuff is pretty interesting so far

please this family tree is a wreath

"I'm tired, tired of being enclosed here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it." - this would be such a cool quote if you forget that everyone here sucks so much

everyone is horrible

I completely forgot that Lockwood gets attacked by dogs on more than one occasion lol

This year WILL be the year I finally finish this absolute doorstopper of a book.

holy crap

nah but like why am I crying every 5 minutes listening to this

I adore this book

I just learned what a 'pupu platter' is, (un)fortunately it's not what it sounds like.