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I thought this was going to be some Pollyanna shit but my heart is actually rending seeing how hurt Anne is and how sweet Matthew and Marilla are to her …. Wow

No photos in this book but the lovingly rendered descriptions by Chris Kraus of her outfits have told me enough. Kathy Acker had that shit ON

Sister got me a Kathy acker sticker for my phone cos she looked dykey, so while I still find her work impenetrable and horrible I guess I’ll read the biography …

I am deeply un nostalgic; I hate remakes, reminiscing about tv shows or media from the past, I usually hate a movie adaptation, the grounds of my childhood are dead and gone, and I can tell this book is going to validate me and enable me to be the most annoying bitch ever about this

Lot to love in this book but the absolutely amazing names in an otherwise quite serious narrative is absolutely sending me… “Moses hog jr” “Johnny soufflé” “the linguini twins” “rachele smaltz-prosecco”

Unexpected yuri 400 pages in

Breakup hitting bad enough that I’m sobbing at a (clearly doomed) proclamation of love in a Dostoyevsky book. Like girl, it’s Dostoyevsky, they are clearly not going to end up happy together. But what if they did …? What if love was real? “You have suffered, you have passed through hell and emerged pure, and that is very much…. I would die for you!”

Host has seen that I’m a fast reader and has given me a stack of books to ‘test out’ for her reading group that she’s 2 months behind on

Please forgive me. I have just had a break up and multiple years of repressed lesbian yearning is coming out at once . If you even care.

im on placement for 2 months in one of the most notoriously violent hospitals in South Africa and my very nice white hosts have given me many books on gang violence in the cape for my education. so here we go!

None house with left grief joke was painful to read

While there have been many times I have thought ‘wow, this book is not good’ , during the Pool Scene I was, like I imagine every single soul reading this was, literally biting my pillow and kicking my feet with excitement, so who is to say what Good is or not

An upsettingly white and catholic group of lesbians

Have had enough of creating lesbians in my mind. Now it is time to find lesbians in real life (space)

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