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hey…. a girl needs a palate cleanse

little women section finished!

“and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward i could receive for my efforts to be the woman i would have them copy” (113).

so far my fav chapter is “being neighborly” <3

IF I LOVED YOU LESS, I MIGHT BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT MORE!

p. 453

all young people would have their little whims

“it might be distressing for the moment, but you seem to have behaved extremely well; and it is over, and may never - can never, as a first meeting - occur again, and therefore you need not think about it” (193).

love you emma

“after this speech he was gone as soon as possible. emma could not think it too soon; for with all his good and agreeable qualities there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh. she ran away to indulge the inclination, leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to harriet’s share” (96).

so cutie girlhood

“yes, good man! thought emma, but what has all that to do with taking likenesses? you know nothing of drawing. don’t pretend to be in raptures about mine. keep your raptures for harriet’s face” (55).

emma is so sassy hellloooo

losing my mind at the transitions between present/past speech and the use of quotation marks!!! so so brilliant and goes back to my last point about the idea of restructuring the narrative. it’s like creative nonfiction… when the narrator is speaking in the past she is at liberty to determine the specific dialogue to her memory as long as it stays mostly true

random thoughts at this point in the book:
- it took me way too long to realize their names are of + their commander’s name
- love the idea of a narrative being reconstructed
- reminds me a lot of what is happening with ice today
- love love love how moira’s queerness is portrayed and the description of her lapse in intimacy in friendship with the narrator that was healed over time :) so relatable

“i avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it’s shameful or immodest but because i don’t want to see it. i don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.”

read atwood’s ‘an angel’ tonight to write a final essay on and was very fascinated. i’ve been wanting to read for a while but couldn’t decide on what, so that inspired me to finally pick this up. woohoo.

highkey obsessed with the concept of spiraling over winter break. i miss richard papen. will have to reread the secret history soon (it’s a yearly thing…)

part one finished

so far am most interested by kyra and elsinore

wait i keep hating but i’m actually so obsessed, like way more than i was with the first book. i can’t tell if my taste has changed since then or if this is truly the better work.

the bunnies comparing bestiality to fairy tale stories (like beauty in the beast) is such a fascinating concept to me unfortunately no matter how weird LOL. i feel like i understand this storyline as a whole so much better

oh my god not the chappell roan mention WHAT

through me so out of the loop of the story ngl. i guess the bunnies were some of her first fans

sorry mona but changing all these characters’ names is giving weird dystopian teen freak energy and i am not a fan.

but it’s funny reading this literally being in a college workshop creative writing class RIGHT NOW like i actually get how these girls are feeling

“encompassed by peril”

i love how dramatic everyone is

“For a moment she found this prospect terrifying - that memory was not a well-kept library, but rather a moth-eaten basement with dim, flickering lights . . . You groped around in the dark. You settled for stories, not recordings. You made do with the bits you had and tried your best to fill in the rest.”

“reason prevailed.”

NOOOO RF KUANG LET YOUR FEMALE MC GO INSANE

the idea of an 8-year-old being intelligent and snarky enough to say “your charity has been much appreciated”

sooo alice falls in the river lethe and doesn’t forget anything. rf kuang i hope you notice this very obvious plot hole (i think she does but i am a little worried by how quickly it’s been brushed off…)

listening to the audiobook for duq book club. i was underwhelmed the first time i read this but maybe this time will be better