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To be fair to Eilish what the fuck would you actually do in this situation like I think I would go insane

Man oh man

"Like a mouse to a glue trap, he'll wriggle around Belfast till he dies."

Trying not to cry because they're scrapping outside Belfast Primark and I was there last weekend looking lost trying to find the Falls Road (nowhere near Primark)

Reading this in Belfast and forgot to add it to my GR!!! Sorry bookworms!!!!!!

This is so beautifully written! I am savouring every page.

"Something of that darkness has come into the house."

Amazing first few pages, I am enthralled!

No plot just vibes

"He would now be changed. He would no longer be himself, if he had ever been. It's what happens when you get too close to the sea. He remembered the pleasure of it despite that."

Wish I were a transparent blob washed up on a beach

Weird and wonderful so far, very much enjoying

Fuck

Mixed feelings thus far

Exactly the chill book I need for a day ill in bed :(

This is sweet and kind of bonkers in equal measure!

"There is no word for a parent who loses their child. Unlike previous centuries in which child mortalitu was very high, it's not normal for this to occur in our time. It is something so feared, so unacceptable, that we have chosen not to name it."

Reading this in my luteal phase was a CHOICE

"I love to hear the north in you. Reminds me of Evie, I suppose, but mostly it's just because it's so much a part of who you are, my northerner, my norther daughter."

Sobbing

"I'll tell you this, our smooth-cheeked prime minister would not have lasted a week on the streets of West Belfast. Over there, the men who really got stuck into the killing game, they rise and rise and nobody dares whisper car-bomb or knee-capping or sectarian murder to them. They're sitting in clean rooms. Every day they're quietly rewriting history."

"These words are a river and they cannot be turned back."

"Most of my dreams in Belfast were just about Belfast."

What an opening chapter. Jesus, my heart is already bruised.

This is bad but I'm far enough in now that I'm just going to read it out of stubbornness honestly

Re-reading. Interested to see what I make of it this time, two years later and at a VERY different time in my life. Already feeling warmer towards it after just 1 chapter!

What am I actually doing

I have sent several people several depressing and over-communicative messages while re-reading this fucking book

Logically I know how bleak this book is - I've been re-reading it for the past eight years - but every time I read I'm astonished by how fucking bleak it is.