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Obsessed with Cersei’s pov. Who would’ve thought the most evil, scheming character is secretly really dumb? It’s giving Glass Onion

Still weird

This is weird

Story’s ok so far but the art is kind of ugly in my opinion. I so wish the colouring weren’t digital

Darn you Jay Miller for having me try to speed read this in a short amount of time. It’s too lovely and deserves more of my time. Darn you

Slow going. The slowest, perhaps

Loki has so much main character energy and he’s right

October = Neil Gaiman time

I’ve been in a reading slump lately and usually reading graphic novels or Neil Gaiman or both cures me. So yeah definitely reading this book that is wider than my lap when closed and probably weighs 15lb will get me back into reading. This is not a cry for help I promise

I cannot tell if the prose is good or not. But I just read the sentence “All I could produce was a meaningless, ugly sound, like the rubbing together of two meaningless, ugly things.” So I’ll leave the judgements up to you.

Essay 6, “California Dreaming”
Short, odd. These people needed the Honors Program.

Essay 7, “Marrying Absurd”
Also short, but concise. A focused highlight of the absurdity of Las Vegas

Continually incredible

I’d been reading little bits at a time and didn’t think it warranted adding to my currently reading until I saw I was 77 pages in 👀

Guess I’m committed now

So maybe I like monks now

Vampirrrrreeesss

For a secular novel it understands Lutheranism pretty well

Reading this instead of Annie Dillard bc I need something new

Essay 5, “7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38”:

Rich people are weird. “Why do we like those so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of desperation and power and white sneakers?”