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Oh wow.
I love this author style.
“She didn’t resent it because one learned so much more this way but it summed something up for her, and not just about art. That’s so enormous the confusion around the truth could remain veiled in tacit muteness. She guessed it was how everything that was noble was eventually destroyed.”

Phase one by Dilruba Ahmed, “for putting forth only revisions of yourself with punctuation worked over, instead of the disordered truth, I forgive you.”
Daym

Kei Miller’s book of genesis “imagines a kindness: that the deepest yearnings of the heart might be heard.”

An exquisite book. I don’t want to finish 😔

Chapter 81 🥺. I may have welled up a wee bit.

“Because they need to name everything.” Oh wow

Finally I begin and it is good!

And we are off. Bk 1 of 2026

I love books that send me into rabbit holes. This one a female baroque painter rabbit hole. Wow the Judith of Holofernes painting is something huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_...#

Right. Three more deaths.
I just want it to end 😒

Urgh. What was the point of adding Ninian as a character? For some kind of gruesome shock and awe?! 😔

Ok. This is sometimes unnecessarily verbose.

Chapter 6. “His withdrawal leaves her insides smarting, leaves her exposed, and leaves a void between her legs in a place once sealed to the world.”

Sheesh. This made me roll my eyes. What a silly way of writing about the first time she had sex with blokey.

I love the food descriptions. So mouth-wateringly beautiful. Reminds me of pachinko.

Oh my. The start packs a punch. I’m invested now x

“Her grievances only made Jude realise how grateful she felt. Gratitude only emphasised the depth of your lack so she tried to hide it.”
Damnn

“…a sameness that she later found comforting. No surprises, no sudden anger, no man holding her one minute then hitting her the next. Now life was steady.”

I understand completely 💕

“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging…” 😔

“She felt queasy at how simple it was. All there was to being white was acting like you were”

I wish I know what this feels like.