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Read the book that Trump and his lawyers don't want published: http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/tr...

Inequality continues beyond the grave.

I sure hope this exchange between a (male) director of an institute of education and a (male) fanatic of Islam about (female) wearers of headscarves is satire, cause if it isn't, it's simply hilariously bad.

How rum some English people are! They ask to be shocked and long to be shocked and hope to be shocked, but if you really shock them...how shocked they are!

This book's been on my shelved for fucking ages and qualifies for at least two challenges I'm participating in this year so let's a gooooooo.

There is a certain pleasure we take in thinking about how bad it gets, Sartaj thought, and then in imagining how it will inevitably get worse. And still we survive, the city stumbles on. Maybe one day it'll all just fall apart, and there was a certain gratification in that thought too. Let the maderchod blow.

Shoutout to whatever asshole ruins books like this. Your taste is shit and so is your name.

I have never gone without food for longer than five days, so I cannot amuse you any longer.

I liked his stories that I had to read for school well enough, and there's a upcoming Netflix series to prepare for.

2017 Stats:

Read: 78
By Women of Color: 27
By White Men: 2
Pre-2000: 50
Pre-1950: 17
500+ pgs: 7
700+ pgs: 4
Queer Themes: 10
Translated: 27
Nonfiction: 15
Nobel Prize for Lit Laureates: 8
Absolute favorites: 2
5 stars: 5
1 star: 2

Anyone who would rather blame Facebook instead of the military industrial complex for the state of the world today is a liar and a fool.

These weapons are to protect our right to political struggle and not a substitute for political struggle.

One day in a bar he found a man reading to a crowded bar from a book he called Devil on the Cross. (P.S. Don't let my lack of update posts make you think this book isn't still brilliant.)

A suspected Neo-Nazi teen murdered the parents of his ex-girlfriend, so now I suppose people are going to be clamoring for mental health incarceration of teenagers instead of, I don't know. Rejecting every instance of hate before it comes to this? Nah. That'd take too much self-reflexively critical evaluation.

Old Penguin Classics are the fucking worst for being ultra condescending, but there's always rereads with better editions to look forward to.

When you want to do your end of the year wrap up but you know you're going to finish at least one more book before January 1st >:(

I officially bought more books than I read this year, but that's what living's for anyway.

There is a pretense on my own side that we are too refined to care, too compassionate for revenge—this is bullshit, I tell the idealists.

If you expect me to observe your taboos, I think you will have to be more precise as to exactly what they are.

This is just too good. I love it when a rumored future Nobel for Lit winner isn't all hype.

Oh boy. This author knows his WoC lit. Very nice.

Note to anyone wanting to read Han Kang in English: avoid Deborah Smith.

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketco...

This is disgusting. I can't consider my reading of 'Human Acts' valid anymore.

The question of humanity can be solved only by constant dread.

Major 'My Brilliant Friend' vibes from this, but it's not doing as well.

Everyone staying at the refugee reception center has two stories—the real one and the one for the record. The stories for the record are the ones new refugees tell to obtain the right to humanitarian asylum, written down in the immigration department and preserved in their private files. The real stories remain locked in the hearts of the refugees, for them to mull over in complete secrecy. That's not to say it's...

Clearing out all the people in the 500 GBBW group who have been around for more than a month and haven't participated in the slightest. It's a public group, so all the information is accessible. Membership is restricted to those who will actually contribute to the compiling process.

I could use less pontificating on the whys and wherefores of the sexual abuse of the minor. I don't know about the UK, but here in the US, there is no bill of rights for those under eighteen, and the legal ramifications that devolve from such render it extraordinary that anyone would argue that minors are anything but obscenely vulnerable when in relationships with adults. As if the adults weren't taking advantage...

The only big business, it seemed, was culture.

[W]hat if there was a man in there threatening me to support me! I didn't know what this supporting business actually was, but I was sure it would hurt a lot and that it might kill you.