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Tons of audiobooks in January, and lots of male authors! Favorites are Nemesis, Delivrance and Farthest North, plus Born a Crime. Oh! And The Girl Next Door! #tricoursstats #readingstats

Loved it - except for certain parts of the ending. I really like Oates‘ style of writing though, so I‘m eager to dive into more of her books. First book finished as part of #24in48!

Aaah, I‘m loving this book! So glad I got it when it was a deal! Today it totally saved me when I showed up 1h early for an obligatory 150€ driving in the dark class (getting my license together with like 19 obnoxious 16 year olds) and had to sit at our only café reading on my phone — because of course I didn‘t bring my Kindle — with a terrible headache. This book made it all worth while.

"Though she was by nature a deeply introspective person, susceptible to long periods of brooding, and worrying, and rehearsing, and revising, there was a sort of potent emptiness at the core of her vision, or perhaps it was a blinding light; and this impairment (if that was what it was) allowed her to think obsessively, often futilely, around the margins if one of her actions, yet prevented her from seeing it directly. Or from seeing herself."