sydn3y3's reviews
373 reviews

another one i had to take my time with. hanif does it again!!!! of course
i so connect with the idea of loving the place you’re from, the place you know best, for better or for worse. nostalgia is a hustler!!!!
“i have lied to myself to keep loving a city, to keep myself fixed in the place i am because i am afraid i know the truth about america: that nowhere is forgiving and so the unforgiving familiar is better than anywhere else.”
the way i want to go watch a basketball game right now is powerful 

funny intriguing short stories about life! specifically city life. i liked that we kept coming back to the character Faith in different stories. “politics” was especially silly. there wasn’t a story i didn’t like! 
“i own two small boys whose dependence on me takes up my lumpen time and my bourgeois feelings.”
“his little cuntski” LMAO
“i felt a strong obligation as though remembering was in charge of the existence of the past. this is not so.”

lovely! a great companion piece to the tv show The Great :D 

“you think life goes on forever, and that it would be worth having if it did.”
emerence my queen!!! god i love literature about women written by women. i wanted this to last forever

wow! jaw drop at the end. luv it. book club book

wow!!!!! so delicious to read, faster than i’ve read anything in a while. i love this book it fits me to a tee
i need to reread rn honestly
the citations will keep me occupied for years to come tbh 
love and art baby!! my my my 
“it’s not that the people of the ST who were oppressed for their gender, poverty or race were duped… but rather that their ability to love a concept as large and appealing as God was used against them again and again.”
“now, nearly a decade later, the corporeal jolt and fizz i felt in moments such as these is gone, wholly gone, and cannot be reconstructed or felt again. time takes those sensations away and without them the story seems simpler and we hold that simplicity up and call it clarity.” bars

wow! made my brain hurt a little, but in the good way. gotta reread honestly. you can see where garcía márquez gets his inspo!!! very beautiful overall 

enjoyable italian mystery 
the mentions of the political stuff - socialists actually being fascists etc - gimme more of that. also, the idea of people being like, yeah i’m a fascist… wowie. ww2 really did a number on everyone 

flew through this one, so good! ginzburg is so funny so profound so complex! 
also can we bring back the usage of thou into the english vernacular?? i’m jealous of other languages

devastating, beautiful, humanizing, important. book club book