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Great narrative voice, young child pov. I’m so attached already somehow

Boredom, as any child knows, is the soil for daydreaming, for imagination. Every writer is a writer because they were bored—as a kid, in college, at work. Boredom isn’t the end, it’s just a phase of the process—often the one right before a breakthrough we can only outwait it.

Good point about constructive criticism

I realized that I’ve read this before.

Funny when he said it’s American to not like revising and compares it to the constitution.

And all the examples that has to do with everyday revising (jk Rowling saying dumbledore is gay, revising physics numbers to get ones that seem right), etc etc

Well shoot. The Widow has put all the children in jail and there’s only 420 (a tricky number of them left)

The Widow is India who is Indira and vice versa. Lowkey who are any of those people (excl. India obviously that’s a country). Eek it’s so good tho.

EEK getting to Padma and Saleem origin story. Also shoutout the witch

Damn. Not his entire family getting wiped out that lowkey makes a lot of sense tho story wise because he’s lowkey rude with his descriptions of his family members and their character

Why is there always incest? Least he fucked her smell on someone else which is better but still very weird.

Getting his nose smells figured out

Not him performing a coup this is hilarious

I’m so gagged. Everything fell apart genuinely

DAMN.

I’m doing a great job. It’s actually a pretty funny book and I like the narrators voice. It’s just a lot of information that is slowly coming together but sooo slowly

So he’s a telepath this is awesome

I’m really such a big fan of this style of writing, but it does get confusing. It’s interesting to have another person that the narrator is talking to in the story that is equally as confused as the reader. Like YESSS I’m not alone in my confusion.

A little wordy, and I definitely don’t grab/understand everything they’re referring to but it’s a nice read so far

Oh big fav of pov and story im lowkey intrigued

One of the segundos is looking for the gold coins that Ursula buried but won’t say where it is

Fuck I can feel victory I am so close

Book is reading easier now icl I feel like I get the vibe

Colonel Aureliano Buendia had 17 kids that died before 35, and brought them to war. We forget about them. Now, he has 16 kids with tattooed ash wed crosses on them that are all boys. Was the first 17 now being talked about in the present and before it was referring to the future?

Cycle becoming more obvious

So much incest

Gosh I’m struggling to read this book