Abby Jane > Recent Status Updates

Decided my 2026 New Year’s Resolution is to finish this book. In full transparency I am reading it for 1) knowledge and personal betterment and 2) so I can buy the NY Historical Society’s “I Finished The Power Broker” mug.

Had to pause Katabasis so I could get emotionally destroyed real quick. Cruelty, thy name is dramatic irony wielded by Samantha Shannon

Born to love horror books, cursed to be a squeamish little baby

This is not a con, but the villain intro was literally Eclipse/The Second Life of Bre Tanner and no one can convince me otherwise

No one:
A doctor in a Stephen King novel: Man, I bet this old lady I’m administering CPR to had great tits back in her day

Ah yes. George Wallace and Citizens United. My old enemies.

Shannon took 10 pages to write a romance that was more compelling and realistic than the entirety of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo lmao

self-help books are out. Female rage books are IN.

Listen, it's far-fetched, and they won't stop talking about how horny they are for each other, but this book is the cutest.

This book is classic weird Gaiman (Batman and the devil are somehow both canon??), but Dream casually dropping "Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar...what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?” goes hard af.

Why am I getting so emotional over a green tentacled blob child. Damn.

This book is unhinged (I love it)

Nathan Hill's writing has been living in my head rent free and made me break my "Try not to buy books as much" rule two days into the New Year.

Apparently dry British humor + a wholesome protagonist are the balms my soul needed rn?

Who knew whale stomachs can fit an entire human AND daddy issues?

The fact that I can’t wait to get back to reading *THE ILIAD* says everything about this translation lol

I’ve never read a book that gives me emotional damage while being the most healing thing I’ve read in years, so that’s new.

I will be both unhinged and unreachable until this book is finished