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ugh i love the 6-step structure, just finished part 1, can't wait to see how the 'backwards steps' play out

“you will be nice to her”
“i will be nothing to her”
oh yeah im so ready for them to lez out. great characterisation of isabel and eva in such a brief space of time. getting such a feel for isabel’s tightly wound nature. can’t wait for her to unravel lesbian style!

this prose dances to an offbeat melody

great stuff

picked this up on a whim and didn’t even realise i already had it on my want to read list lmaoo

constance’s cadence is so eerie, i don’t want to believe what the townsfolk say about constance and merricat because i believe this book follows the same criticism of blind mass movement of hatred/violence as the lottery, but the placating tone and repeated “you’re so silly, merricat” starts to feels more disconcerting than comforting

prologue (chapter 0) is so so pop feminist i hope it does not maintain the “cozy up, dear reader” (real quote) tone from here on

my bet is on colin

i dont like updating my goodreads because it forces me to confront the fact i legitimately read 5+ books at once but i can’t help it… this book is hard to read (both for dense academic writing, and use of real life violence against women as examples) but a really really good ameliorative definition of misogyny + accurately characterises inherent hostility

this chapter ‘final girl: extreme violence, sex in post-9/11 america’ was so intense i had to skim it or else i would throw up on the bus

anthony bourdain jpeg. once you’ve learned anything about misogyny you’ll never stop wanting to beat the porn industry to death with your bare hands

this is the first i’ve read of yiyun li & her precision in language is incredible ❤️‍🩹

scrolling thru this so i have no idea how far i am into it 🔥