Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy.”
“But when you’re inside it, the closet is vast.”
“People who see themselves as victims sometimes don’t notice when they become oppressors.”
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
“He had rescued it once from the hands of jihadis in Timbuktu, and again from a waterlogged basement in Bamko.”
“We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”
“So I wondered what was different about us-”
“More subtle than Kingsolver.”
“What does that even mean?”
“You can’t be infinitely open minded and effect change.”
“The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.”
