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They mentioned Cayette and I was like wow just like Glass Hotel and then part two literally was Glass Hotel

Fucking around on the catalog at work is great because sometimes you search "Jean-Luc Godard" and learn theres a book of poetry about his films available on hoopla

Haven't updated my progress on this in a while but fear not I am still chipping away at it #dickheadsummer. Also I'm closer to halfway through than it looks by the numbers on goodreads. By my own calculation, I'm about 46% through

Also whenever I do these progress updates ignore whatever percentage it says I am througj the book because my copy's pagination is waaaayyyy different. I'm closer to 12-13% through

Very important annotation from a previous owner of this book on the start of chapter 10 "A Bosom Friend": Queequeg

Waaaaayyyy more meme-y and unfinished feeling than I expected

In the middle of a story ("Whats the Time, Mr. Wolf?") thats incredibly Succession-coded

Welcome to, in the words of Max, dickhead summer

Back at it again because I got the Oxford World's Classics edition for xmas and was excited to read the footnotes/context :3

Incredibly self-indulgent of me about to rate this 5 stars... sorry

Offhandedly wondered why my copy is only 315 pages when goodreads says itd 430 pages but I think its because the print is small and dense as fuck + no full-page chapter breaks lol

You may be thinking, why are you reading this book-length essay of Pauline Kael's that has been widely discredited in the decades since its publication? Well 1) found this book at a used book store and I am fascniated by it as an object 2) I am on a train and wanted a small enough paperback to fit in my purse.

Deeply mid so far but I'll probably finish it

The margins and type are so large that I've been knocking out SIXTY PAGES in HALF AN HOUR. Today and yesterday. Crazy

Veeerrrrryy different to Brideshead Revisited I did not expect the extremely humorous and mildly confusing nature. Not hating it though. Also my copy of this is lowkey falling apart 3

Probably thinks its Rebecca by starting with the school on fire and then starting from the begining/the presence of a mysterious predecessor, but unlike Rebecca it is very poorly written. Probably going to dnf

I like this but I keep having to hype myself up to listen to it. Also HOW am I only 36% through.... how much more of the same kind of stuff can go on??

LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS BTW !

Just did 109 pages of this in one sitting yippeee

Read slightly fewer pages than I intended for rn but at least I did in fact pick it up today. I stay winning

Someone yell at me if I don't finish this soon

I swear I did not forget about this I just knocked out like 56 pages in one sitting

This book is crazy because it references the Kurt Russell baby slut crop top The Thing meme and also because its main character is what I would suppose would be described as virussexual

Generally not a fan of modern written romance but I'm actually enjoying this book overall and im fact the romance part? Who am I?

Written so much in the tumblr purple prose style that it feels like amateurish fanfiction rather than an actual book. Also I know that this is supposed to be a take on Dracula's brides but some elements are making me go: IWTV????. Idk I'm going to keep trying ig

Last book of my John Darnielle bibliography reread...... Just smacked out 40 pages in 36 minutes I love this man's writing sososososo much.

Just finished the first (titular) story and god is Carter's prose magnificently lush..... love it

Agatha you can't just reinvent Mycroft Holmes but for Poirot. Also this book is kinda bad 👍

I know most people don't enjoy this book but when I first read it I was 15 and just getting into TMG and it was the first and only book I had read for fun for months. So even though I am just now picking it up a second time, 7 years later, I could probably never hate it