Mal’s Reviews > Intermezzo > Status Update

“What was it all for, the show of erudition, command of detail. Not as if it made a difference. Insurance against future shame. I was there, I served my hours, punched my time card, don’t forget.”

“And for this he feels a tender wounding gratitude, a sense of blessings, that he exists simply in this body, in this mind, that he is himself, this one person, rich in priceless resources which to his conscious mind remain almost infinitely unknown.”

Ivan just like me fr (unless he does something crazy later into the book, then I don’t know him and never have)

Once again love the writing but wish there was a bit more substance different than her last two books.