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Kind of a boring way to go out but I guess in line with the myth of Icarus I guess

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Raleigh’s actually pathetic cus girl if Cassandra told you you wouldn’t of even believed her lmao

It’s 224 pages in and nothing is happening idk man

Lots ekphrasis as Zillow p*rn in the book's latter half. The POV character's motivations are a bit opaque despite regular (vague & unconvincing) meta-commentary on them.

THE WAY SHE WRITES HIS DIALOGUEJSIAKDJCJC

This being set during trumps first term man dkm

If I’m honest I rlly don’t understand when the narrator is going to make her move and why she’s narrating this like this but I’m just here for the rife

Worried the female nick caraway narrator doesn't have a real reason to be or that it's entirely ad hoc. The novel's conceit appears completed by the halfway point.

Rlly just here for the ride I have no idea what’s going on

I like this so far. I like when you can tell authors have a Thing outside of writing. Like oh you’ve lived a life and seen and done shit outside of literature that’s pretty cool

Joukovsky appears to be re-setting the table on her dyad-swapping relationship square structure that she used in A Portrait of a Mirror, but maybe that's a fake out. The character ages are advanced in the future, though they're also nakedly semi-autobiographical too. Class-status dynamics also are make explicit in the text (similar to how the topic is handle in the film The Materialists).

I’m sorry the statistics jargon rn

Locking in tmr

portrait of a mirror was my favorite book of 2021 now she’s written another book about BASKETBALL how could this not be my favorite book of 2026???? (besides fruit fly, which i’m sure will be up there)