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Book's being recalled and I'm sure as hell not returning it unread.

Reading for class.

In the spirit of today's US Veterans Day, my heart is with my fellow college students under white supremacist attack at Mizzou. The KKK may not be considered a terrorist group in this country, but that doesn't mean this isn't war.

Oh, Mann. Virginity cults are never a good look for a writer.

On the one hand, I'm glad there are copies in the library for me to use when I forget my book at my apartment. On the other, WHY IS NO ONE ON CAMPUS READING THIS WONDERFUL WORK.

Reading for class.

I'm gonna need more Bombay/Indian/South Asian noir when this is through. Perhaps this author's Sacred Games will be long enough to do the trick.

A response to that all women are a little bit gay "study".

I'm glad I've been delving into India via nonfiction of late, else I'd be missing out on so much of this.

My 7th grade tutoree's teacher described a 2-3 page paper as "massive". I wrote a five page in-class essay on Thursday, turned in a five page paper yesterday, and have another due on Monday. Ah, youth.

Reading for class.

In our world, if you write, you are a politician, and we know what happens to politicians.

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.

One part of me's thinking this is pretty neat. The other part's thinking lol, no wonder all the lit bros are jacking off to this.

It's always nice when a class has you read something you've been meaning to get around to for ages.

Someone direct me towards a translation of something by Yanick Lahens into English pretty pretty please.

Theocratic dictators just aren't what they used to be. Or maybe they are, and hindsight's a slag when it comes to calling absolute power corrupting absolutely what it is.

Rereading for class :)

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Oh god why is there gold and red and capitalism-soaked pushes towards democracy everywhere. Goodreads, you can't pull this choice awards shit so soon after DST ends.

Eyyyy Akhenaten! He and Hatshepsut are my faves.

The mind says take advantage of the end of DST and read/write some more but the body says sleeeeeeeep...

Mann needs to stop stepping out of his homoerotic dudebro writing comfort zone, cause it only results in laziness along the lines of naming this current chapter 'The Bitch'.

Oh my lord Mann how have you written an epic about Jewish people for almost a thousand pages without figuring out that witches are an anti-semitic trope.

Oh c'mon Mann. The concept of a person being 'black' in contrast to 'white' wasn't invented till the 1500's. The Egyptians of Joseph's day certainly had their hierarchies both nationalistic and otherwise, but all this talk connecting "higher civilization" to a concept of race is your modernizing bullfuckery and yours alone.

Today I learned that being a short library staff member sometimes requires lugging around a volume set that's half your size in search of a rubber band to encompass them all x______x

Does the difference in gender and/or race of the victim from your own excuse your inhumanity in calling the aftermath of a rape murder "a reverential display."? The last thing they need from you is further violation.

At this moment in my life
hate is so fierce
that I would give anything to kill my mother


she begins, already
on her way
to becoming a woman.

Reading for class.

Has anyone ever come across the GR one star review poet? I'd link, but the inclusion of both IJ and Blood Meridian in their chosen canon leaves me content with poking them with a stick.