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I don't remember being introduced to the Astrophage this early on!

"Oh thank God I'm a teacher" is not a sentence anyone has said out loud before!!

Can't watch the film without refreshing my memory first!!!!

Can't bear to read another page of this today because I know it's going to wreck me and I am not in the headspace

OH SHIT

Oh guys :(((((

Bombed through this almost in one day. The people that called it the lesbian version of Normal People are sort of right but also very much not. But yes.

I read nearly the first 100 pages of this all in one go at about 1am: believe the hype!!! It's incredible. I will say that lots of reviews love Laure and hate Erica; currently I could not disagree more. I think Laure is a rude and shitty human being!! Interested to see how my opinion changes over the next 400 pages. I love being a lesbian.

Time to be desperately sad and desperately lesbian

This is a hilariously Hannah update. I LOVE this book, however it was due back at the library today without renewal because someone has reserved it, so I am pausing it for 3 weeks and will take it out again as soon as it is returned!!!

The fine for keeping a book an extra day to finish it is only 25p, but in all my twenty three years on this beautiful earth I have NEVER had a library fine and I refuse to ruin it!

I LOVE THIS BOOK. I CANNOT PUT IT DOWN. ALL HAIL CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY.

This book is absolutely bloody incredible. Meg if you see this thank you for the recommendation!!!!!

Patronising St A library while I'm here ta very much

Good choice, 5am Hannah: two chapters in and this is already amazing.

I can't sleep so I have decided to start this colossus! I love making poor choices at 5am. Yay.

What an exhausting book

Absolutely insane that is has taken 150 fucking pages for the plot to begin. I mean GOD this book is slow.

"I will never be reduced to my tortured body; that is not where my soul is, it's not who I was as a girl, nor is it the woman I have become."

"We are made up of our memories."

"How, simply, to explain who I was? For fifty years I had tried to find myself in a man's eyes. And he in mine - until he tried to extinguish them."

"And that inconsolable little girl is still buried deep inside me, the child whom no one and nothing has been able to comfort ever since, not even love, not even friendship, not even motherhood."

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrgghghhhhhhhh

Why has no one at Margot's school put this shit on CPOMS

Favourite quote so far:

"The issue was not a lost birthday poem read after dinner, it was what the poem by its non-existence had become: a repository of dreams, of tortured nostalgia, futile retrospective anger and a focus of unhinged reverence."

It continues to be sickly sweet

The first story is really sweet, a very sad story about a little boy lost after his parents divorce, but I maintain the writing has got a lot worse. Hmmmm.