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the prose is nothing special but i get to read about an asian butch yay yippee yahoo!!!!!!!

"ok girls he's my employer, he's twice my age, he's ugly, he did blackface, and he has a woman locked up in his attic but HEAR ME OUT"

also, i immediately read Bertha Mason as a racialized character. seems like there are a lot of white people online arguing that she was not written that way, but regardless of CB's ~intention~ i find it hard to ignore

i've reached the shoe-dropping portion of this book, so it's certainly becoming more exciting, but i still just don't know if it's working for me. Hungerstone purports to be a retelling/reimagining/expansion/whatever of Carmilla with explicit lesbianism, but the original Carmilla, with its veiled language, actually comes across as more queer to me. crazy how that works!

kat dunn sure does looooove that Enter key (derogatory)

oh man… the start of this is tedious. feels like a caricature of a #depressed woman with #trauma. (we all have dead parents get over it!! JOKE.) despite somewhat elevated floral language, i’m reaching for my wallet to pull out my “written for dumb people” card (but it’s not all the way out yet! there’s still time!) sort of grim to read alongside Jane Eyre tbh

ack

charlotte bronte made an incorrect assumption 200 years ago about how much french i personally can pick up on via audiobook

you could badly describe this book as “two uggos with problematic age gap” and that’s fun

i went into this knowing next to nothing about it except that it referenced the american workplace in some way, so i just didn’t quite realize it was going to be so so so brilliant and absorbing. just reached the first mention of the title: “corporate announced that severance packages would be changed.”

it’s been over 10 years since i last read this and i truly forgot that it’s not a nice sweetie pie jane austen moment like this girl is in the fucking trenches

rereading for a book club yay yay yay yay yay

"real women have bodies": women trapped, faded, everywhere. none of us will make it to the end. wow

this is paced so weird to me—it was only at like 80% that i really started having a great time!!! but now im clapping my hands gleefully :)

i truly got halfway through this SVU story before i started being like "wait.... i think this is an imaginary version of SVU"

mothers: didn't grip me quite as hard as the first two stories, but super interesting. a future that will never be.

i actually really like the direction this is going in but not sure i like the path we’re taking to get there. some of these dialogue choices made me say “ew” out loud. but i do truly appreciate the vibe of ignoring every single red flag in pursuit of a toxic lesbian situationship

inventory: short and sad and scary

the husband stitch: a haunting start wow wow wow

so far this is extremely tedious and repetitive and the reader is grating, but it seems likely that it’s all intentional. i will persevere for the promise of blood and guts

getting to a point where this feels a little long even though it’s not a particularly long book. still enjoying myself!

ahhhhhh

jemisin said “silence brand”

“when i turned 30 i sensed that i was at the end of something … but gabe’s death made me a novice again … and i realized i had been romanticizing being a beginner” ough i know this is gonna flatten me brother

last line of chapter 1 was a stunner. ms. muharrar i come to you as a fan of gilmore guys with high expectations and so far you’re meeting them

hat man mentioned

this is depressing as hell man only read this if you feel mentally prepared for that

this really is the most romantic story ever. i love that adoring your lover's mind and personality and also wanting to rearrange their guts are given equal importance <3