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This is the third non-fiction book I have read recently that takes a moment to analyse the sociological implications of Lena Dunham's 'Girls'

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMN yep yep yep yes

megalopolis meets the hunger games

it's like megalopolis if the plot was engaging and they were all 17

there's maps, there's names I'm not sure if im pronouncing right, there's exposition that doesn't make entire sense right now but im sure will in another 200 pages when the magic system is slowly fleshed out... fantasy is so back

yumyumyuyumyumyu this food is so good omg I love this restaurant

re-reading and already loving it just as much Maggie O'Farrell I lOVE YOU

Maps at the start of the book we're so back

One of my more practical New Years resolutions is to read both when I'm going to sleep and right when I wake up to keep me off my phone!

I care a lot more about the characters and their stories this time which makes my problems with the email interludes SO much more frustrating actually

Already more tolerable to 22 year old me but the structure still doesn't hit with me, makes for a tricky reading experience (for me), switching constantly between complex sociological essay type paragraphs that don't feel necessarily tailored to the characters 'writing them' (as opposed to feeling like a vessel for Rooney) and then back to very classic-rooney mundane (non-derogatory) stream of consciousness writing.

my relationship with this book is so complicated

can’t believe the movie deprived us of such a tender love story (Yellin and Falkbridge)

good god

Ruh roh

I love natural imagery in poems and prose and it's really interesting just how twisted and disgusted Plath is by nature and its almost primordial chaos ('Spinster' in particular).

'Maudlin' is my favourite so far. Significantly shorter but so rich in her very interior thoughts on violent femininity and menstruation and pain.

so good so good so good

re-reading because this book came up in the Inklings i read on female friendship last week, and I read this book when i was a preteen - would honestly describe it as a cross between a sally rooney novel and one day… so think it will be considerably more effective for me as a 22 year old. very excited :)) beautiful visual first chapter !!!