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John Updike's brain is SEXY.

When will they fix all the Goodreads mobile app glitches 😔

This is so effing bad but I'm DOING IT TO MYSELF! So I can't complain. Lol

This book is unconvincing.... Literally what about Nina is so appealing? She has zero personality

Fine.... I like this

Started writing an essay on this. I have sticky notes on nearly every page. This book is showing me up....

Great. Yet another book about a millennial who hates a life they absolutely DO NOT have to live.... (Writing an entire book mocking this kind of person is unfortunately just as corny as being this kind of person.) HOWEVER, an entertaining synopsis and a pleasant foil to Gravity's Rainbow. Maybe this will surprise me.

Reminder to self: renew Pete Walker's "Complex PTSD" at later date

148/427

Actually a pretty entertaining book so far, but the main character is a total moron. I don't mean crazy. This is incredible plot armor

I'm not sure how to describe books like this one. This genre has become rapidly popular over the past decade and promotes the "anti normie" anthem for mid-thirties women everywhere. But it's interesting because, while the authors tend to be extremely contemptuous of vapidity, you start feeling after the first 50 pages that these characters are the most vapid of all.

If I had a nickel for every time I read the word "hillbilly"....

I think the thing I hate most about novels from the early twentieth century is that they all contain repetitive, long-winded passages about how "plain looking" the protagonist's wife/daughter is. Saying she is unattractive once or twice, fine. But the same adjectives 50 times? If I had a nickel I'd have a benny, etc, etc

574/704

NGL, rooting for Natalie

313/701

I take back all my initial doubts. Loving this so far

Intrigued to see what I think about this because I only know the basic premise. I also have potentially controversial opinions about the trad wife craze, so curious to see how they're addressed in the novel.

FINALLY GOT OFF THE WAITLIST!!! So bad though because now I want to read it but it's bedtime :(

Ugh. Been reading so sporadically lately and don't like it. Easing my way back in with this one. I don't trust Kelley AT ALL

Man this is good!

Quite like this so far

happy to announce that i've finally watched project hail mary and it was an awesome movie!!! but still a tad less excellent than the book

I can already tell this will be 5 stars for me, I'm enjoying it enormously

i love charles bukowski. i have to say it.

I may have to ask for Jacqueline Harpman's hand in marriage. Though she died in 2012 so that may be difficult

I want you all to guess how I knew the author was a man

"...She pulls back her sweater. There are all these white scars up her arm.

"'You a cutter, huh?' I ask.

"'I was.'

"'That's kinda hot.'"

-- how this book is going

loved "beautiful boy," so curious to see how I'll feel about the son's perspective

/337

beginning to enjoy this a lot more, but just got to the part where he really talks about Leo and it irks me so much that these people are still preoccupied with giving birth of all things. babies are so sacred to some, even in a time of cannibalism i suppose

i'm kind of unconvinced that we would turn so quickly to slaughtering other human beings just to quench our desire for protein. not because i have any strong faith in humankind's collective morality (i think we're all quite capable of extreme evil), but because legalized cannibalism seems like a far jump, especially mass-produced legalized cannibalism of all races. veganism first? no?

Unfortunately this is pretty bad, but fortunately it provides some waiting room entertainment