Having JUST finished A Little Life, you have my full attention…

I am relieved I have never seen the discourse but also… just… flummoxed.

“You should pirate books” is an actual response?!? 🫣🫣

Thanks for posting this… I’m looking it up immediately

and *then*, talk about what you read with others. Other perspectives open our eyes in beautiful ways.

(Can you tell I just had a beautiful book club experience today?)

but read things to keep you alert and learning. Not just about our present, but I beseech (I never say that word, but this feels like the right post for it) you to read about our history too. Our REAL history. The good, the bad and the oh so ugly.

Read about our planet.

Read to save your life. 3/

…not only “lovely”, but *important* and a big privilege that some in this country would hate for y’all to find ways to do.

But, this is coming from someone who feels down to the soul of my soul that reading is absolutely political. Read the stuff that cleanses your soul and makes you laugh too 2/

I have it and it’s near the top of my stack and just need to get to it and love hearing you say this (and a handful of others saying the same)