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To be honest, I initially did not find it terribly interesting.
But as I read, it grew on me. I could recognise myself in that role of observer. Here, but not really part of it. A stranger among strangers. And isn't that what most of us are a lot of the time? Ernaux's book makes us ask that and what it means for us and for society at large.
I've been curious about Annie Ernaux's writing ever since she won the Nobel Prize last year. Today I finished rearing her book "Journal du dehors" (name of the English translation: "Exteriors"). Here are my thoughts:
The book is written in a style that reminds one of journal entries and consists largely of observations Ernaux makes in her town of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris. She observes and writes about the conversations and actions of strangers in the grocery stores, train stations etc.
Queer Liberation Library—a wholly online library that is packed with LGBTQ+ titles. QLL launched in October and has already racked up 2,300 members. It’s free to sign up, and like a regular library, it doesn’t cost anything to borrow any of the e-books or audiobooks in the collection. Meanwhile, anyone can access QLL anywhere in the United States, even in those places where book-banning legislation has been passed.
In All But Six Countries, Intersex People Are Not Protected from Medical Abuse
Old Ain't Dead
Lady Laura 
Transgender World
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