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WE’RE SO BACK

Goodreads is one of the only places online I feel free, but even so, Bezos looms. I just got an ad for Jerry Seinfeld's tour (? show?). I hate America... but 2026 France is nothing to write home about!

Vignettes of sex crimes. 18 year old experiencing anal rape. A writer walking around. Unpleasant and mostly uninteresting. 👎

I’m more offended by finding out on page 154 that he buys books on Amazon than I am by the fact he cheated on his wife for a year. I say on the Amazon owned app 🫩

Circa 30 minutes ago I finished combray ii… book club see you soon!

Through combray 1 and pretty charming compared to the opening of another man’s multi volume epic about death and his life in Europe

Being meta and wasting my time so that i have to to cram for my own book club on in search of wasted time — but you all already knew that…

English is an untranslatable language idc

I will have the only correct opinion on this book in the world

Technically my copy hasn’t come in the mail yet but spiritually I’m there

Got my English copy 1 day before the official UK publishing date thank you Zohran!!!!!!!!!!

Happy bday Sylvia sorry I didn’t finish this book the first time

Spoiler I laughed out loud at a footnote about spelling

Cannot believe

Ok crazy. If book 3’s buzzword was “crying” then book 5 gets “cafe opera” and “skål”

weeb but for nordic lit

Really teetered between 4/5 stars for this because the last ~50 pages blew my mind, and made the whole book all the more memorable. Still deciding if the great ending made up for the slump I felt in the middle but who cares. WOW!!