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"Perpetual outrage is what's going to fuel our movements right now." -- Linda Sarsour

Inauguration Day reading. While I question the choice to open with a dry proposal for financial reform by Bernie Sanders, the following essays are rousing calls to action. I recommend everyone read this piece by Brittany Packnett, originally published at Vox: http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/first...

These stories are so full of intense emotion and so gorgeously written.

Chilling to read of a new ambassador to Germany in 1933 remaining in denial about what was happening around him.

Well, I guess it's as good a time as any to read a book about Hitler's rise to power. Many people have recommended Larson's work and this book in particular, and it's off to an excellent start.

There is so much pain in these stories, but they are so lovely.

"...ten of us who are pretty and fucked up, girls who keep their ugly beneath the skin where it belongs, even though sometimes, it's hard to keep it all in."

Lovely variety in these stories, in topic, style, tone. I particularly enjoyed the one I just read, "Florida," about class and bodies.

The first story is beautiful and brutal, like all of Gay's writing.

This story moves slowly, plotwise, but there's a lot going on in every sentence.

A lot of this is funny, and a lot is just upsetting.

A lot of wry humor, a lot of tense situations.

This is intense!

Have been curious to read this even before it won the Pulitzer.

Wonderful!

Fascinating the way the central conflict of the novel crept into the story.

"Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job."

Really enjoying this. Great characters, fascinating range of situations.

I just adore Patchett's writing style. Her sentences go down so smooth.

Really good, and sad, and good.

Can't stop reading! Have to stop reading so I can get other things done!

So engrossed in this story!

This is shaping up to be a really excellent/horrific apocalyptic story.

Eager to get to the bottom of the various mysteries!

Really into this. I should remember to read more mysteries.

Fascinating setting for a murder mystery!

Interesting how this story is building and coming together.

I love these characters. They're all so lost, and all trying so hard to find a way through the world.

Enjoying spending time with these characters. Still no sense of the story moving in any particular direction.

Pulled in by the characters and the writing. Curious to see where this story is going.