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Bright
is 33% done
Oh. My. Word!!!!
I’m wondering if the author wrote this book so people 100 years from now would know what a hard time blacks (“or negros as we were called back then”) had it.
As if, in 1978, it was so far removed that no one had a clue that blacks had to drink from separate water fountains. From what I gather in this book…that was the main prejudice against them.
Oh. My. Word.
— Oct 08, 2025 04:55PM
I’m wondering if the author wrote this book so people 100 years from now would know what a hard time blacks (“or negros as we were called back then”) had it.
As if, in 1978, it was so far removed that no one had a clue that blacks had to drink from separate water fountains. From what I gather in this book…that was the main prejudice against them.
Oh. My. Word.
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Bright
is 65% done
Two letters: A.I.
yet somehow I’m still reading/listening…
— Oct 10, 2025 09:48AM
yet somehow I’m still reading/listening…
Bright
is 33% done
I wish I had counted how many times she says that they didn’t know what was being made at the ‘town not on any map’ because (she’s assuming you forgot the last 15 times she said it) if the enemy knew… how could we win the war, unless we had a secret city that no one knows about, even the people who live there didn’t know what was being made, they had to keep it secret so the enemy wouldn’t find out abo
— Oct 09, 2025 06:31AM
Bright
is 20% done
The story feels a little like a recitation of the facts the author learned researching the backstory. The number of times we’re told that ‘Oak Ridge is not on the map’ is one example that gives the feeling of a recitation.
— Oct 07, 2025 06:14PM
Bright
is 13% done
So far, it’s good, engaging.
It’s weird that it’s set in the past- during an era when I was a little girl. I can imagine/remember how they dressed and talked. (And no, he would not have said, “what happens in K25 stays in K25.” Author got that from a Las Vegas commercial lol)
Very interesting backstory from WWII.
— Oct 07, 2025 04:56PM
It’s weird that it’s set in the past- during an era when I was a little girl. I can imagine/remember how they dressed and talked. (And no, he would not have said, “what happens in K25 stays in K25.” Author got that from a Las Vegas commercial lol)
Very interesting backstory from WWII.
