READING FOR 9/6/21:

1. NOVEL: The Mournable Body By Tsitsi Dangarembga:
   1. Parts 1 & 2: pages 5-177

• Refers to herself as a fish (5)
• She’s technically not allowed to because of her age (6)
• Languid? (10) 
• The things one will do for an interview (tech writing with jesse miller) (7)
• I’m confused on why the cmobi won’t take the parents… (9)
• The men in this were nasty: they smile and laugh at woman in the rudest ways (10)
• Is a lady dis a shoe? (11)
• She fights for herself and says “It’s your turn to be outraged” (13)
• I don’t understand “He is not a man, you think: he is already finished” (15)
• I feel as though Tambu has an active imagination.
• A bunch of people tormented Gerturde on the combi, Tambu did nothing to help (21)
• Tambu can be nice (24) but she can also lie (27)
• I thought it was funny that they said “…the young ones at these colleges are lying down all the time” (30)
• Why termite poison? (30)
• Her village up brining is an asset (36)
• She hoards her food (37)
• Characters: Larky, Praise, Ignore
• The widow’s son arrived (38)
• “Life has been kind to you at last” (46) 
• She is thinking of ways to escape, what I think, is her mind (46)
• Characters: the landlady I’m pretty sure Mai Manyanga (49)
• “…she will realize that while you are educated, you have nevertheless become a failure.” (56) 
• Shine takes a new woman into his room every night (58)
• Shine tried to get into Tambus room but luckily it was locked (59)
• Christine wants Tambu to runaway with her (66)
• “I am so sick of being sick of myself’ (67)
• Iniquitous? (68)
• At this point I was kind of confused, I thought someone got killed but I also thought someone gave birth. (69-74)
• The women are worried about where they will go is Mai Moyanga dies (75)
• Tambu wants to reinvent herself as a model teacher (87)
• Obstreperous? (91) Tsquare? (95)
• I think Tambu went insane at this point (98) Or at least hallucinating (101)
• She is literally talking to shapes (102)
• I felt as though it was quick pase to getting to the hospital scene (103)
• :I wonder what would happen… if you stopped hiding behind the door to the world that you have closed” (107)
• The woman in the home thinks that Tambu is her daughter (113)
• When was the last time tambu saw her aunt? (116)
• Tambu is leaving the hospital (121) 
• “Either the world has fooled you, or you are foolish” (121)
• The child asked why girls have to do different things (127)
• Leon gives me a weird vibe but it seems like everyone gets along with him (132)
• Verandah? Sundowner? (133)
• Leon is kind of rude, not gonna lie (135/137)
• Some background info about them (142)
• I am absolutely speechless (151)
• I don’t understand why Mai Taka isn’t with her husband and why Nyasha would let her leave (157)
• Her journey pretty much laid out (166) with more on the bottom of the page
• Nyasha getting more frazzled day by day seems significant (168)
• Nyasha and Leons daughter is very powerful and strongly opinionated (168)
• It disgusts me that teachers used to hit their students!! (170)
• Oh my goodness that was a lot to take in (174)