Katie B > Recent Status Updates

Let’s see what the noise is about

I have a confession never have I ever read a fictional book set in New York City in 2001 and saw the inevitable coming I am shocked everytime.

She is so perfect to me. Whatever you do do not look at the controversy section of her Wikipedia page

“There is also the temptation to forego liberty and become a thing. This is an inauspicious road, for he who takes it — passive, lost, ruined — becomes henceforth the creature of another’s will… But it is an easy road; on it one avoids the strain involved in undertaking an authentic existence.”

Yeah I love this already

Has anyone control f for this guy in the files. Genuinely

what the fuck

yeah if you have to write from multiple perspectives you’re a bad writer. apologies

here we fucking go with the Trump voter defense attorney thing. cool down Barbara

very good so far but the first few chapters are nearly frame for frame Bastard out of Carolina. Dorothy Allison you will always be famous to me

Someone in my neighborhood is clearly a book reviewer for WaPo or NPR or something because I find advanced copies in little free libraries all the time this book fully comes out in a year

Repeatedly saying “my literary friend” when you are clearly talking about Joan Didion is so funny

Try Frances in The Hague I’m being serious

oh people weren’t joking about how much this is about being skinny

first Sally Rooney experience lettuce see what the hype is about

my unemployed gay boyfriend gave me gonorrhea. I love him

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To me this is happening in the Contact (1997) cinematic universe

starved for gay content so this could be about literally anything and I’ll probably give it 5 stars

“I’d give a quadrillion quadrillions for two seconds of joy! […] Why, why is everything here so stupid?”


okay pause he ate with that

so close to being free of the shackles of this book

Hey guys why is this 900 pages

oh let’s all make fun of the girl who hasn’t read any of the high school AP lit required reading

also picked this up off the street and it’s signed?

oh oh so now nobody wants to read about tourism in post socialism Bulgaria. that was just a booktok trend to you guys.

The election really fucked me up guys

you’re telling me this whole sylvania is TRANS?

They thought I couldn’t become a worse woman.

IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO ME INSTEAD!!!!

Love to chastise my guy friends for reading books by problematic male authors and then read Patricia highsmith