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Immensely readable but unfortunately sometimes readable in the way a good ao3 enemies to lovers is … NK jemisin I see your game in trying to get me to enjoy heterosexual younger feisty yet talented girl - older cynical mentor man relationships … I must stay strong !

In 1588 Cervantes actually said ‘go out and touch grass’ and it is absolutely crazy such a message resonates half a millennia later

Even though I know what happens the sense of impending doom is really getting to me this time maybe it’s the SAD

Nelly truly slays in her determination to make a life for herself and preserve her dignity in that horrible house

Appropriately beginning wuthering heights again while in Orkney on a very Wuthering Halloween evening

Gilda spends the entirety of 1890 drinking HUGE quantities of champagne and hanging out with her gay uncles … what a book

scenes of unbelievable homoeroticism occurring when coriolanus voyages to the house of his 'sworn enemy' to pledge alliegance to him btw

People say… this is not that good… but what if i have covid and have read through everything i own without access to a library … what then …

Why is iago kind of camp

The intense family dynamics and complicated alcoholic dad feelings are making this a personal and weird read for me

The fact that subcomandante marcos from the zapatistas can not only write but better than many professional writers… another w for the unending ws for the zapatistas and the revolution!

Find her mildly insufferable but I will persist. Has actually made me like Joni’s Blue less

5 pages in and I’m entirely and desperately locked in

The stag dance story is giving mobs dick a little

literally feel like I’m the last person on earth to get into audiobooks but wow listening to an audiobook and crocheting ? Unmatched

Describing Rochester as a brooding and moody hero is so incorrect. From minute one of meeting her he is DOWN BAD and completely unable to hide it

love seeing chronologically how le guin is like ‘capitalism and communism are both evil’ to ‘as one of the early great socialists said’ to ‘only a mechanical, insensate imitation of true society, true community, is made up out of objectified, quantified, persons - a social class, a nation-state, an army, a corporation, a power block. There is no more hope in that direction. We have followed it to the end’

Cannot stand the recent turn in queer theory where it’s cool and normal to call things like the predatory loan practices that caused the 2008 financial crisis queer 😭 and then on the next page zombies are ALSO QUEER ???

I was at an afters and we were talking about colonialism in Ireland and the next day I woke up and I honestly was like ‘…I should call her’ and picked this up again 😭

Sad to report that Charlotte finally dips into politics but her politics are PROFOUNDLY WRONG !!!

Long ass cuck book (mildly approving)

Did not expect to be gagged 400 pages in but Gagatron motherology x

Genuinely now is the time to check in on me

Definitely a personal low logging this but my exams are tomorrow so better late than never

Gay for Helen, homicidally misandrist for Gilbert. What Anne has done here is created a world of realistic men who are shit and weak. Unfortunately this extends to the central love interest of the book as well, he is really just awful !! . It does add fuel to my Lesbian Brontë Multiverse theory however …

Absolutely no one in fictional history has a bigger nemesis than lucie snowe and literally every catholic

I wish I could say I’m rereading this for any reason other than that I need to do research into characterisation so I can write the 4th erotic chapter of my lesbian au fanfiction but then I would be lying