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“You have gone past the halfway point. You are a total literature - and a BADASS! Reward: more reading - and hot babes!”

12 mins in… IT’S GOOD!

Side reading!

This is a Goodreads update’s worst nightmare: how does one update a Choose Your Own Adventure book? 🤔

Almost done with this short novella.
An interesting dissection of a stuck in the rut marriage and a woman who decides to take a dip, but not get out during the duration of the whole story…
Why?
Well…

We all die anonymously…
If not at the moments of our death…
then later.

“To the woman who can’t stand still!”
Cursed Aubry can’t stop, won’t stop 🛑
‘Cause if she does… 🩸 🩸 🩸 ☠️

I still have about a quarter of this left but I know for a fact that I will be giving this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
and if I could give it more, I would.
It is one of the best non-fiction books I have read this year and would highly recommend to latins and non-latins equally; to feminists and dudes like me; to anyone who loves memoirs with grit.

Extremely well written essay/memoir about what it means to be Latin in the United States.
Plenty of wokeness here that would make a few people cringe and dismiss this, but the way Villarreal weaves her life within pop and Mexican culture, has kept me focused on her ideas from the start.

Halfway through and I wonder how some people do not like this because of the flashbacks 🤔
Were they expecting that the succession backdrop would be the only thing they read about? I happen to think that the character development is quite good and that the moments of danger from the chaos going on is just enough to keep the flow.

On audiobook.
Supposed to be Lord of the Flies, but cruder.

The problem with empathy is that we can’t see when some has trouble showing it, making us as as deficient as they are.

“Scream” meets “And Then There Were None”.
The main mystery still remains - only two have died so far, but the flashback murder seems to have been solved.

Less murder mystery, more dystopia (so far).
Short chapters help keep things interesting.

A student put me up to this… 👠

Dylan = 🐉?!?!

Ben Wolf = You know who…
War hero / veteran in a lame job, working as a cop in a small, rich folk town.
Another one with PTSD who would rather be shooting and blowing shit up.

In this BEOWULF retelling:
Dana = Grendel’s mother; Afgan war vet/POW
Gren = young Grendel
Dil = Gren’s buddy; lives in Herot (the name of the town)
Roger Herot = king of the Danes
Willa = Dil’s mom

Hey, Dana… that’s some major PTSD you got; living in a cave, skinny and still wearing combat garb.

Would you let a test determine who your “one” is?
Would you accept? Leave everything and everyone to be with that “one”?
No more chance… what could possibly go wrong?!?!
I would get a kick out of asking this? The discussion would be fantabulous!

Halfway point:
•Dude did a lot of dope.
•Dude got lucky… A LOT!
•Dude tried to get clean… did more dope.

My annotations are running wild!
So many notes on the wannabe tyrant,
and others on the one I know personally back home 🇳🇮

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Like, what the hell am I reading?!?!
It’s like listening to Gen-A’s talk with their “skibbiddy toilet” nonsense 🙃

This is EXCELLENT!
It 11/22/63, but shorter.

Here I go again, reading more than one book at a time 🤫
This one falls under the “Blindness” and “High-rise” category of long-winded paragraphs without much punctuation, but this is dystopian and so far IT’S GOOD!