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reading baldwin is kind of like getting lovingly held in someone’s arms while they also hit you over and over again in the back until your skin is raw and you feel loved

evil the amount of sapphic subtext and graphic descriptions in this absolutely evil

giggling like a schoolgirl about this right now

when you want a fun romcom and you instead get a self help book 😔☝️ just bc i’m like avery doesn’t mean you can YELL AT ME

literally iconic queer read

one of the characters keeps referring to Dallas as her village of life and it’s taking me out of the story so badly😵‍💫

y’know those books where you’re like damn i love this idea but i wish the writing skills were a little better and different (i’ve already read a fourth of the book in a day tho so maybe i’m enjoying this more than expected)

i wanted to like this book so badly but the grammar and structure of the text is so annoying to me like stop TELLING me start SHOWING me. we’ll see how far i make it.

every time i read some of this book i want to heave and cry with agony but like in a good and also awful way ?

and just at the last moment they squeeze some homophobia into the stew

see i felt the same way when i did a frog dissection in middle school

someone get this poor woman a drink

take a shot for every time a man who is seen as rich and also an asshole is assumed to be jewish!

that’s…. really disappointing

there is NO way she managed to sneak an entire mountain lion into disneyland i simply do not believe you

“What do the dead do at night? Do they come forth grinning at the wind whistling through their ribs. What do they care that it is cold?”

the level of description winterson goes into at the end of this novel is so sickening miss where did you get this kind of skill

Jeanette perfectly describing the sims in 1993, 7 years before the release of the game is insane.

god DAMN Jeanette we JUST started

the way i am not even remotely rooting for the two main characters of this book give me a whole book about rory and smith NOW

i’m fully sobbing i wasn’t expecting this development from smith 🥺 you are ALWAYS important and your feelings are VALID 👊👊