Status Updates From The Fortunate Fall

"There was no use fighting it. I had fallen into hope, as you might fall into the ocean; and though I knew I would drown eventually, for the moment it seemed as though the deep, deep sea would keep me up."

It’s been a whole month let’s read it again

Not this book reminding me that my AIM screen name in high school was GoluBoy85 😆 I really thought I was so clever…

Literally the most exquisite piece of lesbian / sapphic angst and juicy drama I've read, alongside The Locked Tomb.

Amazing how Cameron Reed, back in the 90s, was like: here is what's going to happen to the internet and also here is what mainstream media always was, a very narrow lens.

Nothing clever to say, just that this is soooo goood.

Well the grey zone starts off very sexy in a weird way 👌👌

Great mix of beautiful writing and lovely narrator so far!

Awkward baby queers using tapes of whale songs to hit on each other is so deeply mid 90s (when this book was written, not when it is set) I could cry

First page we got Moby Dick, we got Russians, back cover has Charnas comparing this to Brothers Karamazov uhoh my expectations are making a squishy hole in my brain and asking the book to fit in it good