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I thought I would kill two birds with one stone by reading my first Calvino AND doing a palate cleanser of “books about people who are split in half”

The percentage at which I begin to like other people’s two star reviews, if you like foreshadowing

Boy is it rough to have references to Harry Potter and coraline within two minutes of each other

Let’s do something with the big reveal!

“You show them love. And if that doesn’t save them, they’re not worth saving.” I’m uh not so sure that we are taking good lessons from this book

It feels so wrong to dislike a fifth grader this much but in my defense she is a fifth grader as imagined by a grown up

Noting for posterity that this is the page where I thought “okay that’s enough of this premise” editors need to get in the same rooms as the books they are theoretically working on

Underlining like a mad thing

Oh Emily Emily queen of understated sexy future past depression

Great choice to follow up private rites like this

This twelve year old and I already have beef bc wdym science facts are BORING and NOT MAGICAL AND MIRACULOUS

This woman is really stupid

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Tbh I am enjoying the lectures so far

I am bored but the reason I’m posting at 26% is that I don’t like the anachronistic language in this historical novel but, specifically, using TOUCHY FEELY which was invented in the SEVENTIES is TOO MUCH TO BEAR

I’m completely charmed by this book and it’s exactly what I needed BUT I SWEAR TO GOD IF PUBLISHERS DO NOT HIRE BACK THEIR COPYEDITORS IN THIS TIME OF DECLINING LITERACY….!!! There have been several incorrect words or spellings and it’s like, chokshi’s good & the book is pretty SO WHY NOT ALSO EDIT IT

With the exception of PERHAPS manhunt, gender apocalypses are really not my business

Cannot overstate how thrilling it is to get back to reading these stories after solace house - this kind of psychological horror running thinly beside the supernatural MAYBE is exactly what it was trying to do but here she comes up from the Past, she’s the champ of it

One thing I’ll say for this book is that not much needs to have happened for me to have read 366 pages of it

[so you haven’t quit?] NO! a two for one of how Maclean handles mental illness & a mystical missing/dead Irish & Romani wifemom: “Ella Flayne thought this was a Thin Place…all that stuff about dumping lunatics here. Maybe they were just…drawn here anyway. Maybe they could see something no-one sane could.”

I too remember when Buffy’s mom was insanified and saw the ceiling alien, which was also bad

Not to preview my entire review for you all here but I think when they comped this book to haunting of hill house they should have specified that they meant the 1999 movie where a guys head gets knocked off which has a 17% on Rotten tomatoes

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