One of the first things I did during the summer was clean up the book case. I discovered about 25 books just sitting there that I had not read. Some of them were leftovers from my QPB book club days when I had been too lazy to return the DO NOT SEND card and lazier still to not return books I did not really order.
I decided to at least start all of the unread tomes.
One of those books was Loverboy by Victoria Redel. I have never felt so uncomfortable reading a book. The first person narrator dwarfed every helicopter mom I ever encountered. She was scary and repellent and obsessed and narcissistic. It was one of those I-don’t-want-to-know-but-I-can’t-look-away situations. Kudos to the author.
I started on another prodigal book and came across this quote: “I suppose you don’t find it the least bit hypocritical to believe immigrants should not be allowed into America when none of us would be here unless our great-grandparents hadn’t somehow finagled their way in…You’ve become the same assholes who tried to keep our families out–and made life miserable for them once they arrived.”
Written by Michael Moore in Downsize This—–21 years ago.
The times they ain’t a-changin’.
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