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I cannot believe there are over 50 pages left in this book 🥱

cannot put this down

Like many reviews mention, I would hate to be stuck next to the author at a party.

Girl....

I took a sociolinguistics course and we read a chapter from this book and it rocked my world a little. TBD if it holds up

I think the dad has a crush on his son?

I've been very slowly rereading this and am noticing all sorts of details and scenes I had forgotten the billion other times I read this. And maybe it's because I've lived a little more life since the last time I read it but the end of part 1 with Ivan is so. sad. in a way that hadn't registered with me before

You may be wondering, "Abe, you've been on page 50 of this book since mid April, why am I getting this update?" I have 5 days left of my last ever summer vacation and I need to finish this book before it's over so I restarted it.
"What happened to Fox?" I didn't want to read Fox because I actually couldn't stand the prose and the sexual abuse plot became so explicit, so quickly that I had to put it down.

DAMN MA

Best book ever incoming

Reminds me of Bret Easton Ellis and not just because of the drugs

Absolutely fabulous

TPS (Tom Perrotta Summer) continues

Audiobooking, this looses all of its momentum at the start of part two. Also clearly indebted to Never Let Me Go, there are several moments which are nearly identical.

I adored the show and am eating up this book!

This is randomly the book of the summer, I have seen a dozen people toting marigold paperbacks anywhere where reading is appropriate

I've laughed a lot. narrated by Maria herself which is key

YAY

Yay!

Ugh so fun.

We are out of the woods (Taylor swift owns her masters) and I am not in the 70 pages of letters chapter anymore. And that is reminding me why I stuck with it through that chapter.

The lion does not concern himself with how many unfinished books are on his currently reading shelf

On my last update I said "primary source research forever." I would like to retract that statement as I am halfway through a 70 page chapter that is just letters back and forth talking about theory and romantic poetry

I've been reading this in secret, ignoring the two other, much shorter books I've already started. But it's too good to put down. Primary source research forever