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Ok maybe jumped the gun with my first update. I’d seen some 3-star range reviews to the tune of “I’ve heard all of this before” but I find that take to be, usually, uninteresting and flattening. But I’ve just arrived at a line that seems to shatter what I thought was going to be a more radical stance, and fear I may end up very unsatisfied if this is going where I think it is. UGH NO SPACE LEFT WILL UPDATE

I got impatient after not being able to find this at three bookstores and started it on audible but it’s SO GOOD that I think I might have to find a print copy anyway. I think it’d be impossible to read this and not feel like an angry feminist which is what I like to see !

Ughghhh this is so good and I’m so sad and frustrated and angry and feeling really seen and such a sense of solidarity and so helpless and ughhggagsshhhhhh

Guys I usually don’t do updates halfway but … I didn’t really think this would shock me, but boyyy I was wrong. Every story feels a little bit like an episode of Black Mirror if they were all about sex and relationships where towards the end your stomach kind of turns and you’re like fuckkkk noooo not that! But I’m really enjoying this and almost feeling some shame at how much which is fitting thematically

Will be working through this alongside some novels!

Guys I don’t usually do progress updates but I fear this book will take me much longer to finish than it should at the fault of every sentence being 100 words long and each having several bizarre clauses. Henry James why are you like this