Carmen > Recent Status Updates

This book is so good so far RAH the tension, the POVs, the dynamics— I’m using a library copy but immediately bought a hard copy 50 pages into the book. I UNDERSTAND WHY THOSE TIKTOK GIRLS READ REGENCY BOOKS EXCEPT THIS IS BETTER BC ITS QUEER

James Bond is the most annoying fucking man I’ve ever read in my life. “This silly bitch.” “These blithering women who thought they could do a man’s work. Why the hell couldn’t they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men’s work to the men.”

Least characteristic bum I’ve ever read. So different from the movies… overhyped

The only reason I’m continuing to read this is because I’m imagining a gay romance because James Bond and Le Chiffre. It’s insufferable otherwise, and the ironic enemies to lovers concept is funny enough for me to keep reading

James Bond is a fuck ass, sexist, stupid bum in this book wtf. This ain’t my Bond. I’ll stick to the movies.

Only decent part is the Texas glaze: “Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

Oh, and Mads Mikkelsen ofc 😮‍💨🤤

“I do not beat you because I hate you. I beat you because I care for you. Do you think I perform these acts with hands swollen and bloody in a state of madness?”

Jesus f Christ

Idk why I’m shocked at the racism

Girls are fighting

For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Pt 2

Bro is already writing better. That first paragraph? Queen take a bow

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel- piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. Ok eat

Why am I reading this…

Lord save my soul

What the actual hell am I reading

What the fuck is actually happening