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Holy exposition dialogue…

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEE

Physically I’m driving down I-80 and stopping at Casey’s but spiritually I’m kicking my feet n giggling

….we probably just need to time travel to 927 AD and nuke England before it ever gets the chance to start

I know it’s getting mixed reviews but guess who got a signed copy with a gift card 🫢 and since it’s an academic story it’s an apt way to celebrate week one of PhD I think

Woof that second story gave me a heartbreak tummy ache

Oh my god they were roommates

I’ve never sat down to fully read a cookbook cover to cover but I’m one chapter in and this feels genuinely life changing already

We will not be sleeping tonight folks we will be finishing this

If my frontal lobe is even slightly involved I’ll be pissed

I’m gonna need more info soon if I am to go on

I AM OUT OF SPOTIFY LISTENING TIME BUT I WILL BE BACK WHEN IT REFRESHES IN FOUR DAYS, MY SWEET

Coriolanus you have GOT to get over her at a certain point boo

Ok this is my new Thesis Break Book. Blocking Goodreads on my browser again and tucking my phone into a drawer, goodbye comrades 🫡

I know it’s meant to be set in a nondescript Midwestern college town and to label it is a pointless exercise but this is just Iowa City

WHAT?!?!?!? NO!! HOW COULD…NO

This is wreaking havoc on my sleep schedule

Let’s chat about MODALITY. Cause I tried this as an audiobook and didn’t ingest a word. Then I got a library copy but didn’t make any headway cause it was so incredibly heavy (2.3 lbs in hardback!! I’m not putting that in my backpack!!!). Now I’m reading it on kindle and I can actually enjoy it. Amen.

That’s enough experimentation with mystery and horror, time to return to my bread and butter (lesbians steeped in misery)

Every day I clock out of work and clock into a shift reading this. It is DENSE

“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.”

Beau Swan I’m so sorry Stephanie Meyer chose to call you BEAUFORT of all things

Reading to learn more about where Henrietta Lacks’s (of HeLa fame) oldest daughter, Elsie Lacks, was committed.