#The Vanishing Half

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Ronan & Gansey & Theo & Boris: bloody knuckles

[ the mountain goats / the front bottoms / xavier dolan / donna tartt / brit bennett / uncredited / f. scott fitzgerald / fleur jaeggy / taylor swift / john crowley / donna tartt / maggie stiefvater ]

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[boooklover]

“She’d always been a great liar. The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.”

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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[words-and-coffee]

Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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[mylifeincharingcrossroad]

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[ohsochill]

Can’t wait to get into these.

Starting with Shit Cassandra Saw.

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[isawitbefore]

That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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[skyler-reads28]

Got a second bookshelf and spent the day reorganizing!

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[thelifeofniy]

i can attribute my newfound interest in historical fiction to how much i enjoyed the vanishing half. throughout 95% of this novel, i was SO sure it would have been a 5 star read for me. the ending, though, is the reason i must say it was a 4.5 and not a 5 ⭐️ experience.

the vanishing half left me feeling unfulfilled rather than anticipating more or contemplating the ending. once i was done reading, the story was done. nonetheless, brit bennett's writing style and visual imagery is superb.

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[starlit-pathways]

She was exhausted but still laughed at the sight of him, as unexpected as the sudden coming of spring. One day there was frost, and the next, bloom.

—The Vanishing Half, by Britt Bennett

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[where-our-stories-start]

So I'm attempting to get back to reading, since I used to devour books as a kid but stopped reading for fun almost completely in high school and college, and even 10+ years later it's no longer a habit. But I just finished The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, and it is fantastic. It's heartfelt and complicated with fraught dynamics regarding everything from family to race to honesty to self-perception to love, and I really enjoyed it.

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[desdasiwrites]

– Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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[boooklover]

“She didn’t understand exactly what he meant, but she liked being part of an us. People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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[words-and-coffee]

That was the problem: you could never love two people the exact same way.

Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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[mylifeincharingcrossroad]

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[limeyinkpots]

physical tbr + to be bought tbr! a mix of philosophy, fiction, and mythology inspired books *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

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[book51ut]

Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

A really captivating read. I love when stories intersect and diverge and intersect again without the characters realizing it. While anti- Black racism is discussed, we spend a lot less time discussing the meaning and impact of colorism. This book makes us stop and think about it. The premise seems far-fetched: two identical twin sisters, both with light-skin, one pretending to be white and the other living as Black. Yet, colorism is probably one of the most excused forms of racism that exists today. There has been increasing notice and backlash that the only non-white actors cast in shows or films are often relatively light-skinned. The book also encourages the readers to think about the ways in which non-white people uphold white supremacy through both anti-Blackness and anti- dark-skinned-Blackness. I recommend this book. On top of the message, it was written well and the story was quite compelling. I also wanted to note that I love that there was a trans storyline that took place in the 80s that didn't center around the character dying of AIDS. We get so much trauma porn in relation to being queer during AIDS that it is nice to hear about a normal queer love story from that time period.

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