Status Updates From A Boy's Own Story (The Edmu...

I get he's struggling with feeling like an outsider for being gay, but his obsession with being popular is so pedestrian that it's making me like him even less.

Updateando cada vez que leo porque me está costando un montón terminar este libro 😭

Not really liking this yet: reminds me a lot of The Boyhood of Cain, and I wasn't a fan of that one. But it's not long so I might stick it out, we'll see.

IDK, maybe the narrator wouldn't dislike bottoming so much if he stopped insisting you only need spit.

Interesting.

I will admit I am that basic bitch who has had this on my Kindle for at least ten years and is now reading it after he died

thats your dad...

thats a 12 year old boy buddy

no wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. if she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.

when i grew up i would always be frank, loving and generous

The master of characterization.

a hypnotic reading experience

One of the best chapters that I have ever read

One of the best chapters that I have ever read

Entirely obsessed with this. White's writing is almost hypnotic. Some of the most beautiful scenes that I have ever read

White's prose is absolutely stunning and the perceptions of his narrator are truly marvelous and incredibly insightful

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Every sentence is so pretty

He’s so verbose in all the small details of his life. It reminds me of house on the bay and house on the ocean in that regard. I don’t think I have the bandwidth to read another book, by another old gay, going into immense detail about the smallest events in their past. This one is centered around childhood and set in the past which is unique but I feel that I will end up unfulfilled if I continue

SERIOUSLY WHY DOES HE WANT HIS DAD SO BAD

😨😨😨😨 why the fuck is he talking about wanting to “bed his father”
So many things scaring me. Not an autobiography it’s a horror novel
Why did he have sex with at 12 year old at 15. It’s only page TWENTY ONE.

This can't be just one boys view on self discovery. Also I'll never see the game corn hole as harmless. A feat of skill in throwing a bean bag into an inverted 45 degree of elevated plywood.

I’d forgotten how wonderful a writer White is with his use of words and wonderful descriptions of everything, not just people, that comes within his field of vision.

Racism was profoundly expressed in this work, which byallmean fit the time, but still irk.

"I hypothesized a lover who'd take me away. He'd climb the fir tree outside my window, step into my room and gather me into his arms. What he said or looked like remained indistinct, just a cherishing wraith enveloping me, whose face glowed more and more brightly. His delay in coming went on so long that soon I'd passed from anticipation to nostalgia..."

Nou ze is eindelijk weer begonnen met lezen hoor

Very interesting

getting better

Hurry up