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I've just finished the first chapter / section. This book is supposed to be really disturbing, but so far our mc is just autistic which,,, fair ig

Five and a half hours left!!!!

"Glorifying the past just because we like that story better isnt't history; it is propaganda."
TELL EM BETHHHHHH

My copy got here today, and it's gorgeous!! I'm so excited to read this!

And the thing is, there's no metaphor here, this is just a grounded depiction of what grad school's like

BUNNY, IM SCAREDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have FIFTEEN H O U R S LEFT IN THIS BOOK HELPPPPPP

This book is reminding me why I love biblical studies. She's gonna be an easy 5 stars, I can feel it in my bones

"My modern students balk at how Babylonian law allowed husbands to drown their wives for alleged adultery, but my students are also living in the state of Texas in which women make up 94 percent of the victims in domestic partner murder-suicides... Shouldn't Christians, who are called to be different from the world, treat women differently?"

GET EM BETH!!!!!!!!!

I've caved and started highlighting

This book is beautiful and profound and highkey I think I need to be smarter to get it

Happy Pride, everybody

Shout out to Junji Ito for proving humans are really the scariest thing

Kinda wishing I chose to annotate this but also glad I didn't so I can just focus on reading. Maybe I'll go back n annotate later

Man, wouldn't it be messed up if that happened? I'm Junji Ito

Oh,,, oh that's gonna haunt me

Pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm beginning to see why this book is so popular

HELA TAKEOVERRRRRR

Shout out to Libby for helping me trim my tbr list a little

Why does the audiobook narrator keep WHISPERING??? SIR I AM ON THE FREEWAY I CANT HEAR YOU SPEAK UP!!!!!!!!!!

Ooooo messy messy messyyyyyyy

OUGH I THINK I KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING AND IM SCAREDDDDDDD

Now that's not quite what asexuality is but you've got the right spirit

O he's getting his steps in

Local man discovers mental illness

Ohh ok, it's time travel

Anotha one
From the intro artwork it looks like this will be about creepy aliens in a big library, so it's immediately very relatable

In which the main character (?) does almost nothing

I can see how Lovecraft's writing is foundational to other horror. Unfortunately, because I'm familiar with modern tropes and things, this isn't like,, scary or shocking to me. The art (STUNNING) is the main thing keeping me going atp

Also, is Chthulu worshippers having darker skin canon to the og text? I've never read Lovecraft directly so is that a him thing or is that a liberty this artist took? (Cont'd below)