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bold of me to assume this will help my reading slump in any way

Having an ok time but becoming increasingly confident that this guy hates black people and women

In my “books with cleverly-made-up words” era. The author consistently shows instead of tells and relies on you being well-read and a lover of the english language. Topolganger?? Are u kidding me?? LOVING IT

“The once-collapsing Ul Qoma rookeries, crenellated and lumpen-baroque (not that I saw them - I unsaw carefully, but they still registered a little, illicitly, and I remembered the styles from photographs)” - ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! what a treat of a narration I’m in love with this 1984/I am Pilgrim lovechild

oh no i’m actually having a fantastic time. the men were right

Already fighting for my life, second attempt. Having the same experience as LOTR where (controversial) sometimes a great writer is not necessarily a great storyteller, or maybe I am just dumb. Get ready to see this on my shelf for a very long time - but at least this time I’ve found the bloody glossary at the back!!

I can see that this isn’t going to be a book for everyone because it’s hefty and not massively gripping, but I’m really enjoying just wandering around with this character. Hollinghurst is a fantastic writer and has a wonderful ability to capture how nuanced and rarely singular emotions are - characters are always “pleased and a little bored” or “polite and rather grim-faced”. I love it

Thoroughly enjoying how well this book subtly keeps secrets from you through a first person author. Not easy to do without being heavy handed or irritated but so far I’m obsessed, highlighting a lot and have a feeling it will make me cry at around 40%

MODERN books with an introduction from another author just totally glazing it to get you hyped before youve even begun……. highlighting the themes you’ll encounter without giving anything away…… drawing on comparative literature…… classifying it as postcolonial fiction…… situating it in the political environment of its pub year……., hnnnnn………

phenomenal so far, pick it up STAT

Giggling kicking my feet this is SUBLIME. Ian McEwan has been possessed by Virginia Woolf for this one. I am eating it up yum yum yum

Ok we all give JKR a rough time about naming characters but i am CACKLING at these names. What do u mean the electric district called their children COIL and LECT and AMPERT!! the fish district called their child URCHIN. WHAT do u MEAN the transport district called their child VELO and MILES. and then after all this we just get RYAN FROM DISTRICT 9 suzanne PLEASE

I Am Doing My Best But This Book Is Genuinely Hard

This book will drop THEE most insane lore in a sentence and then immediately move on. “and then she died. meanwhile,” “so he married a 12 year old, who then got pregnant” I am mentally unprepared for this

Tried to read this once before and found it tiring. Went in again with the stubborn belief that while every friend has rated it 4+, I would find it cliche and entitled. Alas I am experiencing The Joys Of Reading and am having a fantastic time!

Violently reliving my own experience of summers crushing on best female friend. This is going to end sooo badly bestie

Pleasantly surprised - having been worried about the romcom vibe the book started off with. This is definitely one for Sally Rooney fans, naturally has a Little Women aspect to it, but above all reads a LOT like Demon Copperhead. For now I would recommend !!

(rubbing hands together gleefully) PHILOSOPHY

i am so not a non fiction reader. but i am trying. just with lots of naps interspersed when it gets boring

Eating this one up! Licking the plate!

let’s fucking gooooooo 🧌

I don’t know how much longer I can pretend to be enjoying this

Third attempt to read this book with hefty 5 year gaps between each attempt. Let’s hear it for #3 !!!

I think my issue so far is that I just don’t get her motivations. She’s in a job that makes her absolutely depressed and miserable and spends so much time being miserable, which is something I could never imagine doing - life is too short? Most likely a me problem but this book wouldn’t exist if she just. Didn’t work there

“I say, exhaling perfectly round Os that imitate the shape of my shaved head” i am going to return this book

As with every other bisexual academic-smart introvert who reads this book, I fear I may be identifying with Frances a tad too much

This is gay ww1 angsty friends to lovers fanfiction. My specialty. I basically ghostwrote this. Unsure how to feel

Have to keep physically putting it down for a few seconds every chapter bc I’m so overwhelmed with emotion. This book snatches you into it and stuffs you into the narrator’s mind. It’s uncomfortable and claustrophobic and upsetting. I’m really enjoying it.

I didn’t realise that these are separate short stories for more chapters than I am willing to admit

He’s just transposed the entire history of this character into Lessons? The exact same story told almost word for word? Someone do this man for self-plagiarism