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Lena Dunham writers the most absurdly consumable content. Regardless of the sorta strange (often cringe) voice she has, it is abundantly clear that she’s a genius.

Bored 100 pages only to read 20 of the most profound pages of the entire year.
“Where does this personal obsession with the past come from? Why does it pull me in, like a well I have leaned over? Why does it seduce me with faces that I know no longer exist? What is left there, that I don’t manage to take? Could I beg for just one trip back, even though I do not have Orpheus’s talent, just his desire?

This is making me feel dumb as rocks

Theres something about this that reminds me a lot of open water and all the reasons that didn’t work for me. Every touch is lighting, crisp english is a frozen pond, everyone is shaking fresh rain water off their new wings. When every moment of a book is poetic, it’s really hard for me to stay interested in a plot. Idk.

God this is dull

I’m off a gummy feeling like the wax child

“These are strange times my dear, they smell your breath to see if you've spoken of love.”

Ulysses is easy for me to understand. I am having no troubles and grasp the plot with ease. Nothing is standing in my way.

I was extremely put off by Taylor’s first novel because of his obsession with the seemingly straight man hooking up with the gay friend trope (or should I say fetish? Since it certainly is fetishization of and obsession with the straight male). It is MIND BOGGLING to me that he would begin this short story collection with the exact same fetish. I want to like Taylor so bad but I don’t think I do.

This is seriously 1 long intense rumination on mice

If you have a special interest in mouse infestation I urge you to pick this up! You could pick it up from me even! I do not want it

This is boring as rocks

I don’t know why this lady has dreads but she might be a genius

Reading this dystopian which didn’t win the booker thinking about Prophet Song which did win the booker grinding my teeth

This dialogue is a dumpster fire

O this might be really good…

Brilliant.

Well goodness gracious!

Making a sincere attempt to read more modern fiction & booker prize noms. I am impressed over and over again by people alive today with brand new and exciting ideas. I love people.

I desperately need Vuong to pick a plot and stick with it I’m begging

Really good

Man this shit just gets more and more complicated

Putting a 200 pages section with no periods right in the middle of the book is interesting but I’m with Murray still that’s twin!!!

Incredible writing. Murray might be the blueprint

Feeling so nostalgic this fall. Watching old shows and cooking old recipes. Haven’t read manga in very likely over 12 years. Nerding out n shit

Wtf are these people fighting about

So this is short stories marketed as a novel. I’ll have the head of whoever’s responsible.

The first time she compared her sociopathy to the innate sexiness of Jessica rabbit I thought it was sorta weird. The second time she did it I thought it was cringe. The third time….