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This author loves tangents.

I do believe I despise Anse Bundren more than any other character I have encountered in literature before.

Everyone in this family is MIGHTY suspicious. I don't know their business yet but there is something very messy going on here.

Imagine if you lived in a world where your employer would still try to reach you and your coworkers to talk about work from beyond the grave.

Fat man wearing fuchsia capris, pink yak-fur slippers, snakeskin sleeveless blouse, and a ribbon in his waist-length dyed-white hair.

Woman wearing faux camel hair trousers and a grey sweatshirt. Man wearing "birch-bark" pantaloons, hemp belt, see through top, and train engineers tall hat. Bald man with goatee wearing hip-hugging gold lame trousers and a kelp-green mitty blouse with egg-sized buttons. This man is described as highly dignified. Another man wears a dirndl, a snood, cowboy chaps and sandals. Males in maxi skirt and shift dress.

I have to make note of all the outfit choices. Girl wearing a cowboy hat, black lace mantilla, Bermuda shorts. Woman wearing a silk sari, nylon obi, bobby socks. Boy wearing a floral mumu and Spandex bloomers. Pat is the only one dressed "normally", wearing a canvas work shirt, jeans, belt, and heavy boots.

An electric yellow cummerbund, petal skirt, hose, military-style visored cap, and gauntlets is considered Average Joe work attire. We're dressing in optimized RPG armor in this universe I guess.

The narrator is crass and bitter. The cat I think is altogether too friendly and helpful for a cat lol.

Stupid, stupid man. Even when everything is spelled out for him.

Very Tumblr: Our heroine actually has a conversation saying she'd "choose the bear".

Also
Jasper Dodd's Handbook of Spirits and Manifestations by Nathan Ballingrud

Favorites so far:
The July Girls by Alison Littlewood
A Hinterlands Haunting by Richard Kadrey
The Surviving Child by Joyce Carol Oates
The Unwrapping by Terry Dowling

I'm about to throw a fit.

"Congratulations! You all have been specially selected for a very special sparkly civic service!! <3 <3

All your property has been requisitioned and we're kicking you out of our country now right NOW."

Oh my God they have the worst chemistry of all time why am I still rooting for them

The fantasy world is interesting and I am intrigued by the Ancestors and their mysterious, unreadable books but the romance plot here is so bad. It should clearly be a *VERY* slow burn, like multiple books slow burn, but suddenly we have the Cold Man in Finance falling for the Clumsy Nobody instantly. They've barely spent an hour together total at this point and I'm supposed to believe he's in love with her??

I don't think I've found every single character in a book to be so unlikeable so quickly.

Why in the world is the father so incredibly and purposely useless? Makes it clear he isn't even trying to work but has the audacity to ask for treats as if he thinks the family has an income. Refuses to contribute even when the children are nearly starved and start looking for work themselves.

From Dirty Wedding by Denis Johnson
"I know they argue about whether or not it's right, whether or not the baby is alive at this point or that point in its growth inside the womb. This wasn't about that. It wasn't what the lawyers did. It wasn't what the doctors did, it wasn't what the woman did. It was what the mother and father did together."

"That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children."

"I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh."

"If you're standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God Almighty how you fight."

The importance of saying 'no'. This guy just didn't seem to understand that he didn't owe everyone anything. I think this is probably the result of the sexual assault he suffered as a child.

The main character is so pathetically weak and blames others for his misfortunes rather than taking responsibility for his own shortcomings. He is an addict, incredibly susceptible to suggestion and peer pressure, with no direction or vision for his life. Life is merely something to endure, or perhaps it is its own punishment in his eyes.

This is uncomfortable to read. It's like going to a party where everyone's a stranger and none of them are likeable. Everyone's so petty and inconsistent.

Ignatius has come to the conclusion that world peace can be achieved by using gay people to infiltrate the militaries of the world. They will be so caught up in cocktail parties and tailoring their uniforms that they shall have no time to make war. It's perfect.

Oh boy. His exchange with the hotdog vendor is next level.

Book for femcels? All the women who manage to get married did so by beguiling men, "taking them in" with their wiles. They aren't even good housekeepers. And it's not like Mildred wants to marry anyway! Certainly not. Men are helpless creatures without their maids - and any woman in their life is bound to become their maid. The Excellent Women, the spinsters, are simply too good for marriage evidently. Of course.