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okay the creepy was like mild earlier but now its like OKAY. taking a break because this kinda does touch on my deepest darkest fears

i immediately gravitated towards this book in the booker prize shortlist and i feel like this sort of narrative breaks down stream-of-consciousness to its barest bones, diluting boundaries between speech and thought and perspective. which is really interesting but personally i think i would like it a bit better even more stripped. the melodrama at points is teetering on the boundary of overdoing it but overall i

im itching to make notes bc my brain keeps going 'an eco literary study of this book would be sooo sick... gotta make notes' but then migraine brain no work ergo no notes i cry

i realllllyyyy like the narrator and the flow of this book

nice im a fan of the capitalization

im... really confused by this book. on one hand, i love it - its immersive and it constantly teeters the line of binaries - life and death, passionate love and passionate hate, masculine and feminine (although these are more arbitrary than anything), joy and grief. on the other hand... i simply dont get the extremely prosaic, overly philosophical style. but i do get it - when i write i try to make it as ambiguous as

the only book ever btw

kinda losing interest - unfortunately, i am realizing that maybe bigfoot isnt one of my more favourite monsters :( i dont know i think i should still give it a go

this book is doing an awfully good job at putting words to feelings unfathomable

hmm

meh

i get the argument of how this book is extremely tell rather than 'show' but at the same time i find it hilarious how this is marketed as 'mainstream dark academia book' when most people miss the point of it - i think its pretty nice for people who want to get into a specific genre of fiction bc it raises some pretty good questions

mightve read a spoiler im gonna cry

bad timing to finally get invested...

will this be the time i finally commit and finish this book? who knows!