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thundara  ·  3074 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: July 18th is a good day for a book thread

Finally starting These Are My Sisters at the suggestion of kleinbl00. Wondering what the possibility is that it is fictional, because otherwise I think the next 150 pages will take some mental work on my part to accept that such a world truly did exist for hundreds of thousands of people less than a century ago. It's got a dark sense of humor (I think?), too:

    The nurse just now picked up one of the sheets I have written. She read it--looking at me oddly--asked what in the hell I thought I was doing. And because she expected an answer in keeping with my strange occupation--I did not have the heart to disappoint her. So I gave her an answer that fitted. I told her that I was Shakespeare, the reincarnation of Shakespeare trying to sidestep a strait-jacket. [...] She came back down the aisle with a whole ream of paper and said to me: "Go to it, Shakespeare."

Also an audiobook on the history of treating mental disorders with psychedelics for when I'm in lab. I keep having to stop that one though, the blatant disregard of medical researchers by the DEA and FDA just makes me sad.