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the so-called worst paul murray book still sounds like a pretty good time to me

hmmmm

why did an editor not tell patrick freyne that calling someone 'the spit of' someone else is not an exclusively irish phrase and would indeed be ubiquitous to anyone from the uk

she's got me in the palm of her hand icl

i do not and will never care that much about r.f. kuang bc i have no interest in the books she writes but i can't help but wonder if the furore around the (currently seemingly contextless) israeli character in her upcoming book is being driven by the same litfic people giving lost lambs 5 stars despite it being quite explicitly islamophobic. book that may turn out to be in poor taste vs one which we know def is

did my Duke of Edinburgh in box hill. adam mars-jones let’s see what you’ve got

i am sadder than anyone to announce that im just finding this so painfully boring. el akkad is a really bad writer of character and this is particularly glaring when it comes to women, so it was a real choice to fill his book with female characters when they are all so dull and cliched and lacking any complexity or nuance