Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. Thought it was outstanding, have never read anything like it!

Exactly that’s what hurt is knowing he wanted to be a good dad but he couldn’t. And I know he had childhood trauma and even tho he was a better dad then his mom was to him, I also know that generational trauma is hard to break because that’s all he knows. He wanted to be a good dad but didn’t know how to and felt like he needed alcohol probably to cover up the childhood PTSD. The mom on the other hand I feel like had narcissistic personality disorder and couldn’t give a shit about her kids or their well being.

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It also shows you how desperate he is to be seen as knowledgeable and cool. However, those around him largely see him as irrelevant.

Ah thanks, yeah I remember their conversation about clues and how lil' Minegishi should have written his killers name in blood or something.

I also remember Lemon placing the Percy sticker under his palm and putting the Diesel sticker on the prince, but I would have never guessed, that him saying that was supposed to be another clue

Thanks :)

It's really interesting. Kind of a similar tone as The Orderly Disorderly House or the flashback parts of All Girls Filling Station's Last Reunion. She chose to write in her grandmother's voice, so we get to see what grandma was like but it's also somewhat idealized because she was Jeanette's favorite. The bit where they guide the social worker onto the Rez seems like it came verbatim from one of grandma's stories

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It’s sounds like a fun cozy read which I’m really into atm, I’ll definitely check it out. Thank you :)

Even just the title is making me wanna buy it immediately. Thank you :)

Earlier, Lemon and Tangerine had a conversation about leaving clues if they were ever murdered. I think it was Tangerine’s suggestion that you should ask the killer to relay a mysterious and intriguing message to the surviving brother.

Not that the killer would actually give the message, but if it was intriguing enough the killer wouldn’t be able to forget it. Then if someone came around the surviving brother asking strange questions, they would know that was the killer, or at least involved.

Franny & Zooey is better.

There isn't really a singular "point" in which it became unacceptable. You can trace it back to, as someone else said, Paul's time, but cultures have varied on tolerance. What's probably more important is that homosexuality as we understand it is very recent, sure the Greeks are known for their relationships but they won't understand it as being homsexual or same sex. Relationships in their times were based on power, it was based on who was giving and who was receiving, there was a very strict hierarchy of power in those acts.

So with that understanding male platonic relationships were never viewed in a sexual way because relationships were not based around being attracted to the same gender but to the power being used in that relationship

Bwhahahaha!

Choosing what to read is my biggest reading challenge, I suffer from decision fatigue so I do a couple of things to narrow down my choice and to allow myself to have to make decisions less often.

I rarely buy books. I used to love to browse both new and used bookstores and pick up things that looked interesting, but I ended up with hundreds of unread books and multiple large bookshelves in my house. So I purged my books and now only buy books I know I want to read and that I can't get at my local library. I'm down to a single small shelf and I'm committed to not outgrowing it.

Now when I see a book that looks interesting, I just add the title and author to a list I keep on my phone.

I like to choose themes, set goals, and join challenges. Last year I wanted to explore new genres so I joined a community that had a genre of the month club and I set a personal goal to read 2 books from the 12 genres I selected. This year I want to explore authors from other countries, so I set a goal to read fiction and nonfiction books by authors from 195 countries, this should take a few years.

I like variety and I have a few favorite genres, so I like to mix things up. I like to read a few challenging and emotional books each year, so I make sure I have something easy and lighthearted to read after my harder books.

Because I get the vast majority of my books from the library I'm happy to give a book that sounds interesting a chance. I'm also fine with DNFing a book if I'm not enjoying it. Exploring genres last year helped me get a feel of what to expect by reading the descriptions of books, I've also discovered that there are some books I enjoy in genres I didn't think I liked.

I envy people that have a defined taste in books. For me books are a lot like my fashion sense, I can't describe it, but I know it when I see it.

But it wasn’t understood as an orientation. It is like today we might describe someone as a thief or an teacher. We do that as a description of behavior. And we might find that behavior abhorrent or admirable.

But we don’t consider it as someone’s orientation. Or even part of their Personality. We are just describing behavior that any human being is capable of.

So just like today you can look at something in someone’s house and say I’d love to swipe that, without being considered part of the thief orientation, one could Be more sensual in one’s appreciation of another person of the same gender, without being considered part of a homosexual class.

You mention the word "queer" but the first recorded use to describe sexuality was not until 1894--and even there is it not clear that sexuality was was being referenced or if we are reading a later use of the word into an earlier reference.

Even "heterosexuality" was defined as an abnormal attraction to people of the opposite sex up until the 1920s. So what we think we are reading is not always what we are actually reading.

It gets more confusing in a Homosocial world, Where the majority of one’s emotional attachments are to people of the same gender.

India. Men wear pink too! It’s awesome.

Start it with “In the <year of birth>, <father’s name> was born. This made a lot of people very angry and was generally seen as having been a bad idea. We, his family and friends, more or less respectfully disagree…”

The story so far: “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

In a world full of Vognons that wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters, your dad made your life brighter and happier.

Mixed quotes from two books together.

Babe you know all books aren’t fiction, right?

Whatever gets me interested by reading the backcover.

hey bro you’re dumb 😁👍

This is a lovely idea!

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

I had a feeling it was coming from the moment she mentioned buying it. I almost thought they were in the clear. Then the shoe dropped. The dads reaction to being called out…the gall. Especially after going on a multiple day binge. I was pacing in my living room coming up with ways to chew him out. (Not that it would have helped anything.)

It’s really hard to juxtapose that man with the one who gave her 1k to help with college. I do think he loved his family. He just didn’t have the capacity to be a decent human being the rest of the time.

I have conflated this aspect of both these movies before, I think I first watched both about the same time and the obsession with the material world in each is kind of striking to me, combined with the way the movies concluded that left the viewer (in my case anyway) wondering what was real and what was only in the MC's heads.