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Love that there’s a considerable section of her just infodumping about the logistics of shopping malls.

She’s doing a great job at showing just how much it sucks to make a movie.

Also the narrator is pronouncing words differently than I do and I am having a hard time.

I’m torn between being heavily invested in her perspectives of the civil unrest of the 60s and being begrudgingly dragged along as she details the mundane backdrop of it all.
I’m sure who lived in her house prior to her, and also the directions to Sammy Davis Jr’s house, will all be relevant later on.

“It was six, seven o’clock…” holy fuck Joan you’re a genius

“I imagine a crowd of angry voices and pointed fingers, converging on me to rip pieces of flesh from my body like the naiads did to Orpheus, until all that’s left is the prurient, whispered question, ‘Did you hear about Juniper Song?’ “

I’m liking it, but I’m torn about the writing direction this book has taken. Ironic, being a book about the writing process.

Just because you’re a writer with a gruff voice, does NOT mean you should narrate your own audiobook.
Kevin Barry, your writing is hilarious and lyrical, but your reading is dull and lifeless.

“He massaged the horse’s legs with an expert set to his mouth as if he knew what the fuck he was doing”

This book is so much funnier than it needs to be, and unfortunately the guy doing the audiobook is not getting the vibe (somehow it is the author).

“She was all gussied up like a five dollar turkey”.

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?”

- “Reluctance”

Spotify has resurrected my audiobook abilities.

“Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if I ever lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”

Someone tell Spotify to reset my audiobook listening hours - I need to fiNISH THIS BOOK

We have gotten to the “explain the process of the law” section of the book. Lord, don’t let this be like The Trial.

“He was never damaged like she was. She just made him feel that way”

Sally, you’re killing me.

The amount of times that I’ve audibly said “Jesus Christ” and clutched my pearls about some of the spicy things in here.

“He writes these things down… as if he wants to re-create a precise copy of Marianne in print, as if he can preserve her completely for future review”

Ohhh I’m gonna like this...

This book turned into an anti-drunk driving campaign so gradually I didn’t even notice.

The person reading the audiobook is so insufferable it might actually hurt my rating of the book.

It’s giving Señorita Awesome from Scream Queens.

If this book does what I think it’s gonna do, I am going to be very unhappy.

Oh. There are QR codes that link to a soundtrack for each chapter. I’m going to really enjoy this.

I’ve learned the word “deleterious”.

“I understood, completely and definitively, that Chrysta and I were no longer married, and that the war we were embroiled in was not merely a bitterer version of the same lifelong engagement, but was something far more evil, something that had destruction, annihilation, non-existence as its ambition”.