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Loved loved loved Ghost Music by her and have been trying to get my hands on braised pork for forever so when I saw this was coming out I was so pumped. Finally got it from my library. So far, so good

It's like if rosemary in rosemary's baby didn't figure out anything and everyone was acting like her child was normal

This was good in a creepy way - it was interesting seeing the pov of the killers/the thought process, but overall just doesn't really feel like it had a point. Not really sure what the obsession with Morino was, felt like it was just used as something to tie the stories together

Very odd pacing ngl. Super interesting to see what they chose to grab and change - also sidenote but I'm very sad about the fact that Fiyero is not a POC with basically tribal tattoos on his face when did that become not a thing

It's been sitting on my shelf for forever it's finally time (i'm actually having so much fun so far it's so interesting to see the source material for a lot of this stuff)

I'm gonna throw up. Ugh I hate that there were/are actual people like this

"He always called her Fray. Like she was an unraveling thing."

"Promise you'll never save me"

OUCH

SHES NINE

Girl can you let her speak??? (I say as someone who would have been the exact same kind of defensive...)

So the story is super cool and its interesting to see the birth of all vampire novels and lore basically, but i just could not get behind the writing/journal style. I hated it and idk why. Definitely an icon though for what she did for literature

"What do I do with all of these wars in my head?"
"Anytime you feel like there's a war you gotta escape from, just let me know and we'll go hunt rocks together.We'll talk about their size,their colors,and all the ways they're beautiful and special. We'll talk about all of that until you feel like we've found some peace in the war. Arrows can't live forever. Bullets can't either. There is calm,even amidst the storms"

"I pretend because maybe if Dad can heal me here," he said, touching his body, "then maybe he can heal me here." He touched his head.

"Don't you think if that was the way it worked, you wouldn't need to pretend anymore?"

"Maybe it takes a while," he said. "Maybe it's like a rock. It has to be shaped."

They are so cute together are you kidding

So cute are you kidding

Oh. This book is going to end me, isn't it?

Finally reading the og

Loving this already

I finished this but skimmed the last quarter. I think this just wasn't really the book for me and i'm interested to see his other work and see how that goes. I don't feel comfortable rating it because I wasn't engrossed completely in the story. If y'all want to read victor lavalle the vibes between all of his books so far have been so different from eachother so fair warning

Honestly not loving this 😔 it's a lot of telling me what happens and what relationships are and I'm just kind of bored and don't care about anyone. I loved The Devil in Silver and liked The Changeling by him so really bummed thus far

NO YOU CANT HAVE BARNABUS TOO SHUT UP PLEASE STOP

Emma I swear if you do this to me

You know how sometimes reading medical things gives you a false sense of thinking you could do it? I wouldn't wish being a nurse in the maternity ward (at any time but especially during a pandemic in 1918) on anyone 🙃

But also the sharing her birthday with Bridie thing was so cute are you kidding me

Okay fully thought Bridie was Birdie for the first half I read oops. Emma Donoghue is so good at creating an atmosphere and really immersing you in it. It's crazy how descriptive this is.

The no quotation marks is kinda odd and makes it a bit difficult to tell thoughts vs spoken aloud but not too big of a deal

The way this gets my heart actually racing is insane

Great now i want a whale measurements tattoo