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surprisingly fun read for a book that primarily focuses on soccer

been reading this on and off on my phone

giving this shit another go bc I hate leaving books unfinished more than I hate reading books I don't enjoy

I will concede that "in an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it" is a raw as fuck line for literally page 1

It's of its time I'll tell you that much

after this one I am fucking off the Narnia series for the foreseeable - cannot hack them anymore atm

Oh she fucking can't stant Lacan 💀

Book club book 🤓

this book is a bat swinging at a hornet's nest it rules so much I just wish I could understand it a bit better 🥲

On a nostalgia kick with these rn

Also continuing my vampire fiction kick (in a manner of speaking)

Learning a LOT about the personal politics of Mister Clive Staples Lewis 👀

glad to be hanging out with the Pevensies again

Okay so this story cannot be set in 2026 because Easter Sunday falls on the 6th of April

But Easter Sunday hasn't fallen on that date since 1980, well before America's conflict with Afghanistan began, nor WILL it fall on that date until 2042(!) far too long after the conflict ended for a man in his (presumably) late twenties to have only recently returned from combat

The story is only mildly interesting btw

Jesus Christ Armand 😧

My least favourite of this series so far 😒 I'll be glad when I finish it

Claudia ought to be the poster girl for all those female rage compilations and collages

joining the war on Christmas on the side against Christmas

the first 120 pages were literally so stupid and time-wastey but it's just gone so off the fucking rails I feel like I've got whiplash

FINALLY confirmation of where the love interest served - Kabul in Afghanistan

The US's conflict with Afghanistan ended officially in 2021, yet the love interest seems to have only recently returned to Maple Falls even though the story is set in the present day 🧐 something isn't adding up

Also I keep forgetting he keeps alpacas and subsequently keep getting jumpscared by alpaca mentions

"is God real" and other such conversations with worstie (Armand)

Louis you dirty dog

this is such a stupidly long slog for me because the love interest is ex-US army which is already a bit of an amber flag but it gets even worse because I have yet to actually learn what he did in the army because only an unspecified "war" has been mentioned so far 🫥