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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.

ROUND THREE, HERE WE GO! Avsey's translation this time.

I am losing my patience and my marbles

man what the hell

"... new migrant churches have been conduits for non-British forms of the Bible in Australia."

oh, the irony of reading this straight after Irvin Yalom's "The Gift of Therapy"

"The body's decline creeps like a vine, Day to day, the changes can be imperceptible. You adapt. Then something happens that finally makes it clear that things are no longer the same."

so many of these antics would be unethical in my professional context lol

Here we go again!

if Wit turns out to be the Big Bad of the series, I'm gonna cry

Everything is so funny and light-hearted so far... I'm scared

"No one will believe this who has not lived long and looked hard, so that he knows how suddenly a passion which has for years been wrapped round the whole heart will dry up and wither. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root."

"... the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them."

In love with how Steinbeck describes his characters, e.g. "He lived in a strange silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely." Beautiful.

I normally run far, far away from anything remotely resembling self-help, but I'm making an exception for this. This book has made several second-gen Chinese Australian friends cry. I'm also keen to nerd out about Bowen's family systems theory with non- social workers.

it really took me 21 days to realise the leap year is making this go not quite according to plan. oops.