Status Updates From Sirens & Muses

“—and what if Vince had been wrong? What if Preston had been right? What if the truth was that art would always fail because it could only ever be an approximation of something else? That it wasn’t the same as activism, just as opinion wasn’t the same as politics and a picture wasn’t the same as an experience?”

“But then one night in early October Karina had opened up to Louisa—cigarettes and Chatroulette, who would’ve thought?—and she’d felt deliriously happy. The sensation was so unfamiliar that it almost felt like fear. It felt like losing control.”

lets see how much i can read on this flight !!

This was a roller coaster… almost DNF’d at about 20%, then got way too into (but maybe I was just bored on a plane?), and felt like the end was meh. It was best when the characters were being messy in NYC but the parts that were trying to be Deep about art were a little cringe honestly

ੈ✧˳·˖✶ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝:
lesbian artists!! gonna devour this book in a week