So I maybe should’ve made it my new year’s resolution to stop reading books that I know there’s a good chance will make me angry. Take You Deserve Nothing, for instance; I was intrigued by the cover and description when I saw it in Barnes & Noble, then read the Amazon reviews and got familiar with the surrounding controversy. After the long slog through 1Q84 with only the most minimal emotional payoff I was like fuck this I need to read something next that will get to me immediately, which this did, although not necessarily in a good way. Dear Alexander Maksik, you can beg me via text to feel as sorry for you as you want, you can portray yourself as so despondent, so downtrodden, so full of excuses but I still think you’re pathetic. And the fact that you’re trying to pass off this (by all accounts mostly true) tale as fiction, like you want everyone to say oh you did nothing wrong, but don’t have the guts to own up to it… so much cringing! Halfway through reading this it started to make the news that a teacher had a two year affair with a student in the highschool of my hometown; hearing the backlash against the girl, the support for the teacher, has been incredibly frustrating. I’m tired of hearing excuses for teachers who make shitty life decisions. Also, I need to read something less emotionally loaded next.