Maddy Oliver > Recent Status Updates

found an ARC of this on the street (thanks neighbor) and after reading a fictional story about Ireland's mother and baby homes a nonfiction felt fitting. time to be depressed i guess

i think we as a society don't talk enough about the evils of british colonialism. like i know we talk about it a lot but it should be talked about more

yeah that's right i'm dune it

this fun little book about a 1960s rock band has a truly mind-boggling subplot that i literally cannot begin to describe but is executed very well. time travel, immortality, demons? none of those words come close. what tf is this guy's deal

scorching hot take alert but this book is daisy jones and the six for people with taste

just read a chapter about an IRA prisoner who died on hunger strike and his widow wanted a private church funeral but the IRA wanted him in their graveyard so first they threw a massive fake funeral with no body, then they dug a tunnel to his grave and STOLE HIS CORPSE to bring to the republican cemetery. ireland is not a real place it was invented by the IRA to sell paramilitaries

was given this for christmas and have just been plowing through. did yall know the catholic church is like, super evil?