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Casey gets anxious. Really, cripplingly anxious. She is holding it all in ("this is not nothing"), literally clenching every muscle over and over in her body. And then things finally start to move. There is this release, like when the faucet is turned on and the pipes have been turned off and finally the water starts running. The water that comes out is brown and rusty, and she is angry and she is lonely and she has been clenching for so long that's it is so hard to take a step forward that is good, but the water starts running clear again. At 31, it starts running clear again.
"I hate male cowardice and the way they always have each other's backs. They have no control. They justify everything their dicks make them do. And they get away with it. Nearly every time. My father peered through a hole at girls, possibly at me, in our locker room. And when he got caught, he got a party and a cake."
I liked this book a lot. It wasn't perfect, but Lily King is a great writer.
"I hate male cowardice and the way they always have each other's backs. They have no control. They justify everything their dicks make them do. And they get away with it. Nearly every time. My father peered through a hole at girls, possibly at me, in our locker room. And when he got caught, he got a party and a cake."
I liked this book a lot. It wasn't perfect, but Lily King is a great writer.
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September 9, 2021
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Sep 10, 2021 09:22AM
I really loved this book. It is infused with wit, wisdom, passion, desire, grief and determination. I liked the wry jabs at men who don't listen like the gynecologist whose exam makes Casey "feel like a car being jacked up for a tire change”, and the one about learning to stop worrying so much about how men "are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them."
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I also really enjoyed her observations about the interaction between men and women. And to that gynecologist, I'm sure she was like a car! I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way. Just like a car coming in for a tune-up.
Terrific review Kelly !! I own this book, but haven’t read it yet.
Thanks, Megan! Hope you enjoy it when you get to it.
Have you read any of her other books, Kelly. I just started reading Euphoria and I can't put it down.
Yes, I also read and loved Euphoria, but none of her other books.
