Lily C > Recent Status Updates

Beach vacation = start re-reading all of the Wallflowers/Ravenels books; I don’t make the rules

DNFing due to absolutely baffling stakes/lack thereof

wait did we all get formatively bullied on the bus on a zoo field trip?? it wasn’t just me? is this a canon event??

I hate to agree with Henry VIII about anything ever for obvious reasons but damn if I wouldn’t also ruin my life for Jane Seymour (as written by Hilary Mantel)

Tying my hands behind my back while I read this so I don’t Google the Wars of the Roses every three seconds instead of just enjoying the story

wait why is this so good

Thank you to Halli for making me a book advent calendar out of this!!!! 🫶🫶🫶

KJ Charles fix my brain challenge

Is this… is this how other people felt when they read Divine Rivals?? The 1940s Not-England with magic vibes actually work??

DNF at 40%- the horror vibes are there all right, but what isn’t there is ANY SENSE OF WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING. And I don’t mean in a cool experimental way; I mean that there is very clearly a plot unfolding but the word salad is not conveying it.

The literal first scene involves the main character waking up drenched in her roommate's blood and viscera so I think it's safe to say this is going to scratch the spooky season horror itch

Get in losers we’re going to the Culinary Institute of America to take some rubes for all they’re worth at poker

This is a heads up to my GR friends that I’m jumping ship for StoryGraph! I’m going to delete my GR account soon; I don’t love the interface. I’m callalilyc on SG if anyone wants to be friends on there!

Okay I didn’t think it was possible to enjoy a Goose Girl retelling as much as I loved Shannon Hale’s Books of Bayern, but Margaret Owen really said hold my beer

Me: hmmm, I should re-read this. I wonder what made me love it so much when I was a tween?
Book: “Perry Fleming could have been any age from forty to sixty, had clearly once been beautiful and was still striking. Bright green eyes, blah blah, black hair shot through with silver, blah blah laugh lines”
Me: okay yeah it was that

Violet I love you, but that was Not a helpful sex talk

This is giving me flashbacks to when I got dress coded in high school because my shirt straps weren't "the width of a post-it," whatever arbitrary nonsense that is.