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this book is making me giggle and kick my feet at things I never thought I would I love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As someone who is also constantly making the same five revelations over in my own life over and over again I UNDERSTAND but as a character arc it's... getting beat to death.

It started off SO good I hope it picks up!

"David is like a steward for ideas and he's set his life up in a way that allows him to recieve and develop them [...] If he gets an idea at four in the morning he's going to get out of bed and write it down and he doesn't take a single idea for granted it's like, 'Hey, you came to the right person.'"

"Negativity is the enemy of creativity"

alan we are so FUCKED

This is such a deep dive into the what it means to be a mother in a way that I didn't expect from a horror book, I'm really enjoying it! Weird that such horrible events are making me slightly broody...

i NEED to stop starting new novels before bed

this months pick for our queer horror book club!! let's goooooooo

You ever read something so depressing you have a dedicated aftercare book beside it on your nightstand?

'Let's drink a while,' I said, 'and readjust to our own reality.'

"For whatever reason, I've always felt like I /need/ a vice. I don't know whether this feeling is universal, but I have some way down, vibrating part of my subconscious that /needs/ to self-destruct. At least a little bit. [...] I haven’t smoked in more than fifteen years now, but I don’t think I ever quite escaped that cycle. There remains this yearning within my subconscious that cries out for a sacrifice."

Reading this while on the verge of heatstroke, an ectopic heartbeat and the regularly prescribed post-holiday mailase feels right

She's NOT like other girls actually- she reads Descartes and doesn't go to nightclubs!!!!

skill issue loser, you can actually do both (source: my uni career)

Genuinely one of the few writers that can make me laugh out loud which is high praise from someone who grew up being told when to laugh at comedies (kind of like Pnin with American humour now I think about it). I love Pnin. He is Lynchian in a way with his mewling existence and fascination with everyday objects 💗✨️

a nice gift from 2019 Fiona is that every page I turn of this book a pound of sand falls from the pages onto my lap. Bournemouth Beach welcome to my Glasgow flat, hope you enjoy your stay.

"This is time, time laid bare, coming slowly into existence, keeping us waiting, and when it does come making us sick because we realise it's been there for a long time."

"I am not in the habit of telling myself what happens to me."

okay, dissociation king

"Anyhow, it was certain that I was afraid or had some other feeling of that sort. If I had only known what I was afraid of, I would have made a great step forward."