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Binary Star
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
16 posts | 20 read | 13 to read
An intense, elegiac portrait of young lovers as they battle personal afflictions, toy with veganarchism, and traverse the American countryside.
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Bertha_Mason
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard

"I want to feel anything deeply. // I want to know what I‘m feeling. // Then I want to be coy and not tell people about it. // I want them to ask. I want them to insist."
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Naj This is me most of the time! 5y
Bertha_Mason @Naj I'm sorry you have to go through it too. :( 5y
Naj @Bertha_Mason we'll get through this 🤗💜 5y
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Bertha_Mason
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard

"When we originally went to the moon, our total focus was going to the moon. We weren‘t thinking about looking back at Earth. But now that we‘ve done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went."

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Bertha_Mason
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Bertha_Mason
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard

"John bought me this mirror for my birthday. Or John used his parents‘ money to buy me this mirror for my birthday. John used his parents‘ money to buy me a gift card. I used the gift card to buy this mirror for my birthday."
The layers of alienation between them. It chilled me a little.

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Bertha_Mason
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Bertha_Mason
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard

"To disagree with John would be to renounce what he believes are our beliefs, what I believe he believes are our beliefs. To disagree with him would be to admit that I‘ve lied. He‘ll know I‘m lying."

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flockingmolly
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Holy crap. 😍

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HardcoverHarlot
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Just devoured this in a couple of hours. What a punch to the gut.

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KiskyLuella
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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I devoured this book. It's unraveling, rolling prose flows like water as Gerard swiftly moves between her characters, internal and external thoughts. The sparseness of her words and the sentence structure, almost like a poem, generate the best and most disturbing insight into eating disorders I have read and for that, I thank her.

BookMusings I read this book all in one day too. So engrossing. (edited) 7y
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Lacythebookworm
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Early morning reading (and kitty time) before my busy Saturday gets going. I can only read this book in short chunks. It deals with anorexia and alcoholism and it's pretty intense.

AnnieReads Kitty time is the best time! 7y
LauraBeth Your kitty is so beautiful 😺I've been wanting to read this one 7y
PurpleyPumpkin Glad your kitty is there to keep you company. Sounds like heavy reading!😻 7y
Lacythebookworm @AnnieReads @LauraBeth @PurpleyPumpkin She's a new addition to our family. She's joining a Welsh Corgi sister, Adelaide. The kitty's name is Virginia Woolf. Not to be confused with our last name Wolfe 😉 7y
DebinHawaii Sweet kitty face! 🐱❤️ 7y
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Lettters
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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While I enjoyed the style and tone, i was frustrated by the focus on these characters' respective depressions. Their dependencies were isolated, rather than mutual, and the celestial metaphor sufficed with reflecting the stasis of self pity, rather than inspiring the characters (or this reader). Or maybe I wasn't in a mood for a sad book.

Taylor Yeah I felt the same way. 8y
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Pesty1079
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Getting down on some surrealism. 20 pages in and I'm loving it.

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Mjk20a
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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Audiobook is performed by the author....sometimes this works and sometimes not. I like the audio edition and imagine what it looked like in print due to the speed of which the long lists of ideas the narrator has was read by Gerard.

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literati
Binary Star | Sarah Gerard
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I didn't think I'd like this (I was seduced by the cover), but it ended up being thought provoking. While I'd definitely be annoyed by or frightened of the characters IRL, they were palatable on the page. This publisher does all kinds of funky things, for those interested.