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OOPS ig i spoke too soon

maybe I’ll be eating my words soon, but nothing super interesting has happened yet?? it’s all pretty mundane & laidback?

this is giving “ghost” & that one scene in greys & I will not be elaborating on either

listening on audio 🎧 & honestly rlly enjoying so far

this is so fun so far I’m on par to finish in December which is very exciting

point blank this is a book for the yearners and the yearners only

idk I’m really slugging through this, I think I thought it would scratch my metaphorical itch for me but it’s falling a little flat, a gorgeous and sweet story but shrug 🤷

an Amazon first reads November month free read that’s turning out to be pretty intriguing so far, I’m digging the “desert/ghost town gothic” aesthetic thus far

this is exactly my niche ✨

ellis byrd the man that you are 🧍‍♀️

this is hands down the funniest chapter I’ve ever had to try and keep a straight face reading in the waiting room of a doctors office I’m COOKED

this last 10% is balls to the wall wild, kudos to this narrator bc she killed it

“so many pearls to be had, if you were in the mood to open oysters - Gansey so hated oysters” the fact that this is categorized as a middle school/YA book is baffling bc it’s enjoyable as a 20-something still

“I love men, I just don’t trust or respect them” SING IT

if I had a nickel for every time I read a book that followed the storyline of dysfunctional siblings/family and their sentient/“haunted” childhood house after one of their parents died I’d had TWO nickels!

strength beyond strength in this authors voice

oops I’ve stayed up past a reasonable bedtime reading this bc wow is it ever getting me out of a slump. Is it the most technically beautiful book I’ve ever read? probably not. but that’s not the point here debra!!

this is itching the Dexter romance (is that a thing? idk) microtrope SO WELL

reading/listening to on audiobook from loan at my local library 🎧

this is a wild book so far, the triggers are heavy and long standing but it is a interesting and train wreck style of book where you can almost peer through the veil into how “cults” or the “fundie groups” can hone its clutches into young children from the get go

my little brain is running around like the SpongeBob meme about this book, bc I feel like I want to grab everyone I know by the collar and tell them abt this book bc what do you MEAN they just orbit each other for how many years on DIFFERENT TEAMS 😀

snatched this up from my local public library and I’m only 30 pages in but this is a “will likely get me out of a reading slump” delight so far, the “meatball” conversation had me snorting

“yes, wife”

im picturing this man as a very Specific wrestler and i will not expand for fear of being ridiculed but zoo wee mama or whatever the kids say these days

my stomach is knots already I’m usually not a horror reader but I’ve been branching out into psych thrillers but this is straight up ODD (in the best way possible) so far

tarah Dewitt you sorceress how do you characterize THIS well!!

the banter/retort in this is SCRUMPTIOUS