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if you were unhealthily obsessed with this book as a kid and are now gay and mentally ill raise your hand

romeo and juliet walked so graystripe and silverstream could run

time for some true classic literature

this is my hercule poirot

every man in this book is depicted as useless, irritating, and generally just always being in the way of women and ruining everything with their presence. 5 stars

the part where he comes home and finds out what happened to his dog and we realize that the last of the comfort he got from his family and childhood is forever lost to him.............. traumatizing every time

was it casual when i kept the book about homosexual love you gave me for seven years because you were my gay awakening, brought it to war with me, and kept it as my only possession even after the pages were stuck together with my own blood????

miri x britta truthers rise up

my childhood.....!

mmmm English repression and gay panic. Delicious

the way Hall meets one (1) potential homosexual and immediately starts sneaking around like a secret agent trying to strategically position himself in this man's path in a completely casual and natural way. so comforting that my exact universal gay loser experience was also occurring 112 years ago

hi so the introduction of this book talks about how the author said that the energy of a gay man touching him on the butt flowed through his body into his mind and allowed him to literally become pregant with this book because of like, chakras or something. 5 stars instantly

(hyperventilates audibly)

6 years later and the phaedra setup in this book still makes my blood run cold. it isn't foreshadowing so much as a threat on my life. anything these modern greek myth retelling girlies are doing now, renault did 60 years ago and 1000 times better. i said what i said!!!!!!!!

i have decided to re-read my favorite books of all time, starting with this masterpiece

i want to die....... in a good way

when you can't afford babysitting so you leave your husband in jail

joe: (pointing at kite) that man is a psychopath. he's a SAVAGE BEAST
kite: (simply standing in a corner trying very hard not to cry)

a lot of things happen to cats in this book which i am NOT cool with

dying at kite being "profoundly tired". he literally gave joe one job and he came back IMMEDIATELY. disappointed dad vibes

chapter twenty-three survivors how we feeling

joining the cult

their second dog Valentine Lady got hit by a car...... kms

also the horrendously mean and petty things that GUESTS said about Grace, who only ever tried to make them feel welcome and cared for, never fail to shock me

they had such audacity and then didn't understand why there were consequences?? to viciously insult marguerite's beloved partner and then be like "omg why doesn't marguerite like me anymore :(" WILD

monsieur popover died. it's so over

edit: they got a new dog on feb 14th named valentine lady. we're so back

just as good if not better in print and i love the sweet very gender extra at the end :')

marguerite's xenophobic biographers wanted to pretend so bad that her literary genius meant she was held back by her relationship with an american woman, but they sucked at their jobs bc in reality she enjoyed work-life balance, loved her wife who was her greatest literary supporter/collaborator, and had a dog with her named Monsieur Popover. deal with it, cowards

tldr; if grace frick has zero fans i'm dead

re-reading in print bc i've only ever read it digitally :)

their dog was named MONSIEUR POPOVER

The fact that a bunch of French biographers hated America so much that they could not even conceive of a French woman genuinely being in love with an American and enjoying life in America, and all decided to personally disparage an innocent American woman's character in print over and over because of it, is so funny and I believe it unequivocally #Justice4Grace

hey! turns out this shit fucks