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really wasnt expecting to like this but i've been charmed. chewed through this bad boy in a couple days This is what Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow thinks it is. I hate drawing that comparison but this really is the same dynamic but improved in just about every possible way godbless

The prose is so decadent so sumptuous. So gross and heady like an unwashed armpit sprayed with expensive perfume. Beer cans crushed in the red dust oo yea

A group of girls come up to you at the park saying 'watch this! Watch this!' But instead of doing a series of wonky cartwheels they start circling a dead bird chanting in latin

-thought I'd disagree with the ghost element of this book altogether but Renata's last conversation with Patrick actually turned me around on the whole thing, they did pull me back. But I don't think the ghostbusters were necessary at all, and this could've been a tender magical-realist exploration of death and life in the AIDS crisis, had it not reached for something bordering on sci-fi. Ehhhh idk i wanted more

'Is it sad that my island fantasy has my whole regular life in it? But why would I fantasize about paradise and not bring all my friends?'

The description of Mari Lwyd from a child's perspective... why is Welsh folklore so fucked up i love it. Ya there's a ginormous animated horse skull singing at the door and it wants to come in and rob you and the only way to deter it is to sing back. Hello

some of this is so fire but my god the bits about AI are so sickly naive it makes me want to dash my brains out just thinking about it. 'AI is the true nonbinary' girl stfu oh my goddddd i can't do this do you think she wrote this before they made Grok i really hope so

Gotta start looking properly into charco press titles before blind-ordering them. I'll give it a chance but the incestuous dynamic at play here erm. Am I at risk of sacrificing an interesting nuanced piece of literature to avoid the discomfort of reading it? Maybe... or maybe Margo Glantz is a bit of a freak idk idk idk

I LOVE SHAPES I LOVE SHAPES SO MUCH I LOVE SHAPES AND COLOURS

Enjoying myself so far but it always makes me wince when authors write characters who are gamers. Harvey saying "sometimes I feel like if I get something wrong I can just go back to my last save point... but this is real life... there are no save points..." someone give this guy a wedgie god damn idk if this is the author guessing poorly or I'm just not willing to face that people do actually talk like that

This is an absolutely stellar book but im at my limit with the endless repetition im ready for it to be over im sorry Arundhati Roy im tired

'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