Status Updates From Lonely Crowds

everyone read this…….

“my mother had told me not to look at anyone, not to talk to anyone. i ran.”

“we can do whatever we want”

I usually try to reserve my comments until I finish but I need to put this down before I forget.

I would beg to differ that this is a novel about friendship

One of my bookish pet peeves - characters developing unexplainable obsessions with another character/thing/concept for seemingly no reason

Ruth is so, so passive

I don’t know how I feel about a lot of books masquerading as “friendship books” when really they are books about repressed desire. Those are two separate things in my view

Why are there so many hammers? Is it an artist thing?

she crazy and gay so i expect this to be fun