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'I am meant to hate myself. I will not play that game. Live alone - I am meant to hate myself. No money - I am meant to hate myself. Lonely - I am meant to hate myself. And then who wins. Everyone and everything that I hate. And so I will not hate myself.'

Wes Anderson would make the movie of the century out of this book

Already have a very good feeling about this one

Domestic dystopian world building that remembers queer people exist... sayaka murata could never WHO SAID THAT

Love the name iolo...

Thought it was bad enough that it turned out X wasn't just an edgy nickname and he's actually named after Malcolm X , turns out the climax of this impenetrable story is the reveal of a blackfacing blackmail-stalker crime boss who then explodes into a big pile of coins. What an. What an interesting piece of literature. I literally don't know what to say

Was hoping I was just reading this too quickly and missing the full meaning of the text but oh my GOD this book has a 2.95 rating 3 months before it's even released what the fuck 😭

putting in the acknowledgements 'to my husband: thanks for pretending to be gay, buddy!' STOOOPPPPPPPPPPP

wanna give a copy of this to my mum soooooo bad. it would be like handing a toddler a loaded gun and painting a big target on myself but ohhhhhhhhh my goodness

This is making me want to learn about contemporary Bolivian history so I'm glad to be reading it but idk if I see much of a direction or purpose to most of these stories. I quite liked Atomito for the characters' lives shaping around the nuclear plant, and I thought maybe this would be a collection linked by proximity to the plant, but the last two have been totally unrelated. Not bad but not much new being done

You can't do borderline absurdist action sequences that require a suspension of disbelief on the level of Baby Driver and deliver it with a tone that demands I take it seriously. If I ever have to read another meaningless description of the sky followed by "What else is there but this?" I'm going to pop a blood vessel this book pissed me off in a way few things can

This is so ass

This is bordering on a hate read this audiobook is so bad???? Every single dialogue line is followed by a paragraph of exposition so nothing flows. Repetitive language is such a pet peeve and constantly you see the phrases 'on the cusp' or 'what is ___ if not this?' There's a bit where Lily and Will are flirting and you see 'but what is college for if not this?' What are you saying. When are we going to steal stuff

bars

Love reading classics I've been intimidated by and realising they're actually really good. Like that isn't the whole reason they've survived to become classics. Bulgakov is actually funny as furk who was gonna tell me wtf...

Contains the word 'otakuness' and still won the pulitzer... how did Díaz do it

Think I'm gonna have to DNF... which SUCKS because the first 100 pages were such a blast but nothing has changed except now Sean is being taken to court over unpaid debt and hes annoying and pretentious and every page I labour to reach the end of is a reminder that my life is finite and I could be reading something else... ergh

genuinely I think like 70% of this guy's problems could be remedied with a pair of loop earplugs. dude is just overstimulated 24/7 man get some ear protection

this is def a marmite book . if the tone doesn't shift at ALL in the next two hundred plus pages I may flag and change my tune but so far I LOVE YEAST!!

'Then there was the pressing matter of what to write. Yes, give it one last push, but of what onto what? To write in a thinly disguised autobiographical manner and document the life of a middle-aged bookseller with frustrated artistic aspirations? No, I could never stoop that low. If I must insist on going through with this, at least address something relevant and contemporary. Write a novel about... gentrification.'

I see a potential future self in these pages and my word is it sobering.

Already a huge fan of whatever this book's got going on

Hrmmm

Urrg the concept has grown on me so much and I want to like this so bad but the writing style is already getting up my nose a little ::;";";' I'd watch a movie/TV adaptation in a HEARTBEAT honestly this really reads like a script with too many stage directions rn. let the action flowww I don't need three eight clause sentences in between each line of dialogue pleze

Beautifully told but so bleak. My god

The tandem storytelling of a cow giving birth and Betty sucking blood off of Anna's fingers is absolutely diabolical

Chloe Michelle Howarth is so good at writing yearning it makes me straight up nauseous. 'Oh, all the beautiful ways we would have let each other down. Isn't it silly? I want so much to have the chance to disappoint you.' blwing chunks all over the page how about that how bout them apples