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a fascinating premise dulled by casual racism, rampant sexism, and anti-fat bias. i want to rate this book higher, but i cannot without getting a bitter taste in my mouth unfortunately. it’s truly upsetting reading from a point of view that asks philosophical questions of the world… while ultimately not challenging the world outside the straight, white, masculine gaze :/

sci fi authors will ask “is anybody else gonna describe every female character’s bust in detail each time they show up?” and not wait for an answer... -_-

i had the same problem with do androids dream of electric sheep, though that one was much worse. i love sci-fi, but it kills me how saturated with misogyny the genre is.

reminiscent of a very easy death by simone de beauvoir but with a slightly different focus. i love ernaux’s style—it reads with a strange mix of elegance and rawness.

dazai just like me fr. there is an odasaku shaped hole in my heart too.

i love this so much—but i feel like i need to read it at least five times. woolf’s style is just so dense and dramatic.

loving this so far. having the protagonist dream in verse was an excellent choice. im braindead rn and can’t give a better analysis but what it’s saying about reality and fiction, poetry and reason, women and the world, aughhh i love it.