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Perhaps I spoke too soon 🍇

I DNF’d at page 61 last time I tried this book and I’m finding it more favorable this go around

I’m a simple man. Approve me for an ARC for Julia Armfield’s latest, and my other responsibilities fly out the window

I’ve seen bits here and there from people both loving and hating this book so let’s get into it

I’ve been such a lazy cockhead about reading. Hopefully this ARC can do it for me. I’m getting Piranesi vibes, and based off some of the language being almost 1:1 with my favorite lines of prose from that book, I feel like it’s intentional

Whew

I dunno man. Claudia is quite literally physically incapable of missing. I feel like I see where this is going, but the way she’s taking me there is just so enthralling

Babe new translated Claudia Piñeiro dropped wake up

This feels like such a departure in a lot of ways for Emma Cline. It’s fragmented, very loose. But that same hypnotic, morally grey air she created w/ her writing is what always keeps me coming back.

Each paragraph, or sentence, feels so fraught and mundane, but this I have a feeling this book will reward close reading—important points seem to just be unceremoniously dropped in.

Bleak AF

I keep getting distracted from Yesteryear which is not an indictment of that book, but I can’t simply sit with a new Emma Cline ARC unread… it’s not possible

I gay gasped twice during the latest chapter

I love books where 2 characters are actively manipulating and using one another, always thinking they have the upper hand. It’s so juicy

Slay

Yes. (Yas.)

I’m not far enough in to know if there’s something ~supernatural~ at play here but I’m writing here now that I blame the husband’s father for “Yesteryear”. It’s always the powerful, wealthy men toying with others existence