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Reading this book for booklist consideration, and I brought it to work today because it's short and I figured I'd get through it quickly, but this book is *dense.* Not even dense with words on the page it's a lot of dense emotions especially with my work sitch right now.

I've found it weirdly liberating this year to not track my reading? But it's fall, I should get back at it.

Yes.

(this is incredible so far)

Audiobook this time. Low-key this book is saving my life rn.

I think Woodward is a right-wing hack that couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag, but here I am- reading his newest book.

Fire and Fury was better.

.......oh my god

Well I'm already tearing up at the first chapter so...

"What makes a man isn't who he isn't, but who he is when no one else is looking. I didn't need a father to teach me that. I just needed to open the door, and see it for myself."

"The truth is, this is a ghost story. No, this is an adventure story. This is an adventure story about how I quit being a ghost."

Fucking chills.

I'm reading this prepub and I'm all "meh" and skimming the hell out of it because it's super predictable and all of a sudden...
"I can't help but notice how good he looks in his binder and shorts."
THE LOVE INTEREST IS A TRANSBOY!?

Not the first time I've read this, but if I didn't have work in the morning I'd probably stay up all night reading it again

oh lord this book is a lot and hitting way too close to home

"The politicians loved small towns. They thought all we did was sit around eating apple pie and waving flags in our churches. They didn't like to think about everyone taking opiates and working bad jobs and living in a constant state of fear."

"Men do not have a language for loneliness, so they turn to violence and sports, in that order. They cannot cry, so they blow things up instead."

Again, no lies detected.

"Every time a man meets a woman, he should have to give her $5. He should have to give her $5 and say, 'I'm sorry.' Then he should never talk again."

No lies detected

"I'm not enjoying my second cup of terrible coffee in a cafe in Kingsburg, California, twenty miles southeast of Fresno, when I'm given an explanation to a mystery that's puzzled me for years."

a++ sentence

Uh, hey goodreads, why did you just wipe out all of my "read" dates?

Well, y'all know I'm going to finish my reading challenge at any rate.

The last time I tore through a book this fast I was eight and it was Harry Potter

I feel like this is one of those books where you get the humor or you don’t.

I’m really enjoying this but the sheer amount of negative reviews has me wary of finishing it

This is basically someone’s Paris is Burning fan fiction, but I don’t hate it

So not one of the libraries in the system ordered this, and none of the local bookstores ordered it either.

...like I swear I'm not the only gay in this city, what the hell.

I can’t decide if I like this or not. I’m definitely not the target audience, but I also can’t figure out who the target audience /is/

A teen book where the protag is a sophomore in college? Ehhhh

Nikki Haley is described in a direct quote as being “as ambitious as Lucifer”

Direct quote from Bannon about how they had “about 100” women who came forward and then settled out of court and oh my god it’s all as bad as we thought.

It’s all as bad as we thought

I’m pretty sure “jumo” isn’t a word, Steve