Status Updates From Muriel Avenue Sluts

Finished the preview part.
Karen

oh holy trainwreck!

This has been a whoah story and so much can still go all sorts of wrong!

Don't you love it when you think a book is taking you one way and then it takes a sharp turn down another!

"According to Greta's numbers, 37 girl, in this school alone, were being abused by thwir fathers."-- That's actually wrong for US where it's 1in5 girls abused and 3in4 of those by somebody they knew. So it's more often than this book suggests.

I feel so much has happened in not half the book. You need a lot of energy for this one.

Just--this quote from earlier! This is the answer to why girls grow up faster than boys; why we learn different lessons in life; why we are doomed to walk different paths still, to this day.
An excellent paragraph-long commentary on the darkest of male privileges in a book baring women's oppression.

""War and terrorism and all that shit."
[...] Terrible things far, far away from Charlie's safe little world. Charlie hadn't been touched by any real monsters. He hadn't come face-to-face with evil."

You know that moment when a character is close to doing something really stupid and you're holding your breath and cussing them out and begging them to not do it....
Yea, current mood.

i accidentally switched to %
Still not that far but still very excited and on edge

A suspicious character is being super suspicious. This book is working on my adrenaline. I like it!

I will need to write 2 reviews: one as a reader and one as a feminist.

I can't stress enough how great the storytelling voice is.

My Trigger Warning alarm bells are ringing really loudly. I thought I was prepared for this but maybe I was wrong...

The first chapters of this book are making this feminist really frustrated. I am eager to arrive at a point where I can cheer Julia on as she breaks the shackles.

I've really enjoyed the storytelling voice so far. Relating to the protagonist is a pleasant bonus.