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I’m two days late to reading this

Ironically dealing with a roach situation of my own that is making me detach from reality and also making this book quite unreadable at the moment

Wrong time to read the one about the failed academic

I’m locked in

Here we go again …

Uh this is one of the most oddly-written books I’ve read. More of a Cut article than fiction it seems. This is immediacy in action.

Listening to this all day at my office job reminds me when my sister and I would watch Bravo shows as kids and our mom would say it was making us act brattier (big sis had a penchant for throwing her glass of water in my face after tuning into rhony). I’m sorry if I’m a little bit more of a cunt rn. It’s literally being poured into my brain

Exquisite at the level of the sentence, but comes undone at the level of the novel. Makes me wonder about a long(er) history of autofiction. Really struck by how Lispector makes abstraction and weirdness in language so unbelievably beautiful/lovely/delicious.

Yeah we’re in it now

Life changing prose

Another one that really holds up

Not a perfect book, but a perfectly raw and vulnerable and sincere one

Haven’t read this since I was 19 and was so certain it would no longer be relevant. Good to be dead wrong sometimes

WOAH