Abigail’s Reviews > The Memory Police > Status Update

This was an interesting read. It left far more questions than it answered, but it made you ruminate while reading and I really enjoyed the prose. I was not satisfied with the ending, however that paralleled with the ending the main character made in her manuscript, and owned that. 3.5 but I’ll round up to a 4 for the old man ❤️.

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men.”

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Calendars 🥺

“My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds they might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”

“The room had changed completely. The traces of my father‘s presence, which I had done my best to preserve, vanished, replaced by an emptiness that would not be filled. I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth.”