Arkie’s Reviews > If Beale Street Could Talk > Status Update

I FINALLY FINISHED THIS BOOK OH MY DAYS.
I like the nuggets of poetic wisdom in this book, but with that said, it’s really freaking hard to read. It wasn’t easy, and I’ll probably make more sense of it when I’m older, but a solid 3.5 for now.

“It will not be easy. But neither will it be as insurmountable as it seems to you today.”

This is a very quotable book lol

QOTD
“She had not, in fact, touched me. She had done something far more tremendous; which was, mightily, to hold me and keep me still; without touching me.”

Love a good mother daughter breakdown in a book. Anyways I am enjoying this book I think. I swear it’s always the short ones that are so difficult to get through and just sit with lowkey.

“The root of the resentment…has to do with the fact that a woman is tremendously controlled by what the man’s imagination makes of her…but a man exists in his own imagination, and can never be at the mercy of a woman’s.”

Ngl it’s difficult to get my head around this book sometimes, but I like a challenge. I find the commentary interesting, but I’ll probably have to reread it in 10-15 years.

“It’s a miracle to realise that somebody loves you”
Ughhh I’m going at a snails pace, I hope I give this book a proper chance and finish it over the weekend bc I do like it, it’s just a big genre pivot so i gotta kinda lock in.