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“Fifty is nothing. I look back at fifty and think, what the fuck was I so worried about? Look at me now. I'm in the afterlife. Go enjoy yourself." Says Tiresias.

Awwwww 🥹

“We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations; it is the salt in the pudding.”
That’s so relatable as you get older…

You don’t understand how badly I’m controlling my sniffles and cries at a coffee shop.

The book was finally starting to get interesting in Less French. For how insecure Arthur feels, it feels like all the good seats in finding a partner have been taken, and I’m sure any good connection he felt with Javier must be a lifeline for him. I think it only reinforced Arthur’s beliefs that he is invisible as a romantic partner.

“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young.”
“Yes! It’s like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And the you have to leave. And you won’t ever be back.”

Holy shit that’s so relatable…

Im sorry, but how are you going to write a gay version of Eat, Pray, Love, and still make it dry and bland as your counterpart? I’m halfway through this book, and Arthur Less simply uses his resources as a white, privileged man to travel around the world, without any self-reflection or growth of his constant fear of aging or his past relationships. All surface level conversations with no sense of vulnerability.

The audiobook is SO unbelievably good.

My man pulled out a damn book at a function without consideration. This man is sooooo cooked.

I could not stop shrieking and cackling listening to 9 full mins of erotica in the greenhouse scene. It’s one thing for me to read the filthiest smut of my life in exact details unfazed and unbothered. It’s another having the narrator read it for your listening pleasure with all the tonal changes between character switches, gasping and awing each other to climax. I don’t know it felt… cheesy for me?

The sharing one bed trope! The love confession with innocent intimacy! The “I love you.” Fuck yeah, romance is back on the menu for me, baby!!!