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“This is nothing,” cried she; “I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the heath on top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy…. Because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Screaming at heathcliff keeping a visible calendar on the wall with marks for every day cathy spends with her friends vs with him, just so that she can know that he knows?

Chapter 2

> Lockwood confuses Heathcliff’s daughter in law for his wife who’s dead
> confuses a visitor for her husband who’s dead
> no one will show him out to the gate because it’s snowing
> they won’t let him sleep over because no beds
> they won’t let him sleep in a chair either
> he gets attacked by Heathcliff’s dogs
> gets a nosebleed
> everyone laughs at him
> ice water dumped on his head

oh so here’s where it gets dark

Everyone’s saying this book is profoundly disturbing - maybe that comes later??? Rn I’m enjoying this it reminds me of Netflix’s “You”

On sentence 1 and wondering if this is a Did Not Finish already

“A wife didn’t have to be the woman one loved. Adolfo used to say that Mercedes wasn’t pretty and definitely was not charming, but she had a kind of madness approaching evil that attracted him; it excited him that she was capable of killing him, or at least of trying.”

Uhhhhh damn

> protagonist says he isn’t bisexual
> has sex with men and women

“One of the pitfalls of same-sex relationships was that you couldn’t break down in public restrooms. At least, not in peace. The bitch followed you in there.”

I’ve known something for about 40 pages that the protagonist doesn’t know and it’s URGENT that I tell her!!!!!!!

I can’t say she’s stupid for being oblivious though because she’s only 19 it just makes sense

The time skip I GASPED

this is awesome

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Grown man passes out from shock at the sight of a human bone thus excusing him conveniently from major plot points (his absence was built up significantly)

wow, a farmboy who can’t take over his dad’s ranch because he’s allergic to cows. how beautifully tragic

godddd sometimes I have to force myself to stick with my guns after reading scathing reviews and being like maybe I was wrong maybe it was bad

fascinatingly written evil protag, it almost enrages me to be inside her head

“The way popular art repelled her was part of how she conceived her singularity, her outsiderness. Of course she wanted to read these books, everyone did. But she was afraid of what she might discover in them- that they were better, deeper, more deserving of attention than anything she might find in the margins of the internet or might herself create. That they were popular for a reason.”

OOF

ugggggghhh 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

Ok so the narrator randomly drops a slur on this page??? and like ok it’s 2014 and it coullldddd be just the narrator’s perspective… but if that’s the intention it’s not made clear. It lowkey just seems like this author thinks the slur is funny

tips for male authors writing women:

1. Write the character
2. Change the pronouns to she/her

This book is scary AS FUCK. I’m reading slowly because I can only read it during daylight hours

“courage is not the absence of fear, courage requires fear.”

Foley assumes readers won’t know what la petite mort means yet refers to the theranos scandal in the loosest of ways as a significant plot point

Oh Lucy Foley and her boy-who-cried-wolf ridiculously melodramatic cliffhangers that get irritating after the first time, her cringey assumptions of what of what someone who doesn’t share her cultural upbringing experiences, and her third grader-esque naked plot devices visibly devoid of any research. yet still I read

Slightly cringe to witness a Londoner pretend to be Parisian

I like Lucy Foley just enough to keep reading her, but I felt REAL ashamed when my friend saw this book on my coffee table and said they heard it was a “tiktok book”

hate reading books that take place in Sweden because the whole time I’m seething with jealousy at their lifestyle

I can’t stand when someone’s take on unsettling content is “what goes on in the author’s head???” or “she must be so fucked up” like bro it’s a story. it’s a story & she’s writing a story

this is about Gillian Flynn