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“Sitting alone in the quiet living-room in the pleasant firelight, Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard the burden of race” Ooof

Started this this morning. Fingers crossed for the second one day read in a row.

Definitely the reset I needed. Anne Tyler is a master of dialogue and capturing family dynamics.

Still underwhelmed. I sure know how to pick em.

The non-Edward POVs just feel unnecessary

I think I’m in love. Also it’s so nice to have an audiobook experience where the narrator speaks like a real person!!! There’s a time and place for the Julia Whelans of the world but I’m enjoying this break

“the earnest whispery-voiced females from
NPR” oh my God I’m dyinnnnnnng to throw hands with this author

Ngl I’m very upset that I’ve picked 2 duds in a row. Knew almost immediately that this wouldn’t gel with me (the prose is prototypical self-obsessed straight white man) and I should probably stop here but I’m sort of invested in seeing this all fall apart now.

Very unimpressed

Leaps and bounds better than Commonwealth

If I take anything away from reading this book it'll be that Dr. Oz is muslim???

I know this is basically the methodology/ behind the scenes of publishing this story but I’m curious about some of the methodology of the book itself. With regards to dialogue and some specific details

Obviously a fitting day to start this w/ the news of Weinstein's sentencing. So far, I am in LOVE.

I'm making a commitment to keep track of all my reading, even the books I only read 5 or 10 percent of. I'm not sure I'll finish this and if I do I can sense it'll devolve into a hate-read at some point but in the spirit of data-fetishism...

Always a comfort read. In fact, I read a third of this on the train to distract me while I actively ignored upcoming school deadlines. Plus with the PS. I Still Love You movie out...

I don’t know that I have words...other than I feel more exposed than after passing through airport security 🥴😬

“Every passing moment it became clearer and clearer that I was a glitch. A rounding error. I had no business being at this school. The students around me knew. My advisers knew. My mom knew. It was a testament to my sublime ignorance that it took me almost failing out to know it to” oooof.

Oh shiiiiiiii-

“I want to tell them they don’t have the right. That they’re not their people to clown like that. But I can’t help but wonder how much my people are mine. If they’d claim me in the same way I want to claim them”...Ooof, that’s some third culture kid realness there.

Childhood is over 😭😭😭