“I wanted to write a lie. You wanted to read that lie. I wrote this to you instead”

"Oh, it's sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: 'What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.'"

Sound familiar?

"Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers."

"If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod--the common fish. But it has among its predators man, an open mouthed species greedier than cod."

I'm beyond excited to dig into this epic novel. I might need to take a week off from work to read it.

I haven't made it through nearly as many books as I would have liked during this readathon, but it has helped me to reprioritize my thirst for the written word. Thanks #24in48 @Litsy and all the readers here! I appreciate that you share yourselves and your interests.

A perfect morning for a readathon.
@Litsy #24in48

"'A poet's work' he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.'"

At their best, books have the power to put us in touch with emotions that are otherwise inaccessible to us. This wonderful book is such a work, and I am so grateful for its gifts of unfiltered pain and increased self awareness.

"'The key to your happiness is to own your own slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeing you were promised more.'"