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"that's what the Victorian's said about adding boric acid to milk"

WHAT IS THIS DIALOGUE !!!!! this book is so bad i cannot stop laughing

ik he's like the villian or whatever but first. his name is fucking clive. i'm picturing clint from stardew valley. and he called her BABE and fed her on a first date......VOMIT

i really need ana huang to stop writing books from a british perspective because it just feels so painfully american

only an hour in and so many people have failed her

i wonder what bookstore in tampa he was at

"Anyone who works with or has even the slightest respect for language will rage at or poke at fun at these tortured spineless headlines. But they serve a very real purpose.... liberal who, weaned on such framing, can shrug their shoulders and say "Yes it's all so very sad. But it's all so very complicated"

woah. just. woah

this is the kind of book that is hard to read, but then feels like an indictment that i keep wanting to pause it. i'm uncomfortable, but the mere act of feeling my discomfort reminds me that i have the privilege to pause the book.

"'This is kind of hot,' Simon observes. "V-8 engines are hot, yes. That's the point of muscle cars." "No I mean you infodumping. You being smart." Simon concludes, because that's the word. Charlie looks like his operating system is about to crash."

THIS IS SO CUTEEEEEE.

the aspect of this book i like the most is how genuinely funny it is. like offering to put your ex on your car insurance is HYSTERICAL

this is so excellent already but god this is a hard read

'otherwise, kill yourself' IJBOLLLLLLLL

take a fucking shot everytime she says "more on that in a bit" it was cute at first now i feel like i'm going to scream everytime she says it

YAWN. this stuff about protestant work ethic and anti capitalism is shit i did in freshman year of college 10 years ago. like. i am aware that this is fucking mind blowing for some people, but this is BY FAR the weakest part of her book.

this was really picking up and getting interesting when she was talking about speaking in tongues and now im BORED i know MLMs are bad

I love the way this author sets up further things in the book like "This dude kills himself later, we'll get there". That's exactly how I tell stories LOL

i'll confess this is my first book i've read by cat sebastian by she has to have been in fandom spaces because this discord is so accurate

OH MY GOD POOR SIMON :(

"he decides that these muffins are gluten free in like, a spiritual sense. They would never hurt him" HES SO FUNNYYYY

oh i'm glad that isabelle is sympathetic

i feel like the first half of this book was the boyfriend/cat and now we are doing a hard pivot into mom

her being upset about him zoning out during mamma mia is so valid

this reminds me of when yoongi from bts sampled jim jones in a song off his mixtape

"I envied the emptiness of her mind, then felt bad for doubting her capacity for a rich inner life."

'maybe some people were simply born more curious about things that had nothing to do with them."

lowkey me tho

"The US is exceptional in that it is highly developed and full of believers"

What an interesting paradox of American culture

when he tells Katie "You can do no wrong." it really does feel like he's talking to a beloved pet...

“slap it on a t shirt and call me Egypt” has to be one of the most nonsensical lines i have ever heard in my fucking life

him listing all his cars made me laugh out loud it’s so funny

cathy really is her mother's daughter