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Hall does something with repetition. There’s a lot of repetition within a sentence and a paragraph. For a while I thought I was misreading or rereading the same sentence but she must’ve done this intentionally. There’s a resistance against progress, moving on, indicative of the character of Stephen. The restlessness of our protagonist is very much present on the page. Very perturbing!

Christ this novel shall kill me!
(Spoiler below)



Page 444: “Jamie who dared not go home to Beedles for fear of shaming the woman she loved, Jamie who dared not openly mourn lest Barbara’s name be defiled through her mourning, Jamie had dared to go home to God — to trust herself to his more perfect mercy, even as Barbara had gone home before her.”

Page 191: 'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours?’

I’m further in now and I just want to give the protagonist, Stephen, a big hug! The poor babe 😩

I could give a FUCK about countryside bureaucracy!

DNF - stopped at chapter 14

There were times where I had no idea what was going on… still enjoyed the lyricism

“I turned around to let him have the weight of my tongue” - there’s double meaning in that 😏

I’m struggling to cats about any of this..

SLAY! Book 7!!

Bulstrode just got interesting!
Book 6!!

He’s finally dead! Thank f—

Finally on book 5. Book 4 was so boring and dreary. If Casaboun doesn’t die in this section I might lose my will to live!!

Book Four bubbies!!
Book three was the most interesting yet!! Nothing like good ol’ fashioned questions about mortality to spice things up!

Book three ‘Waiting for Death’… ngl, kinda feels like that..

Just finished book one!

I just finished ‘Giovanni‘a Room’ and this is gayest shit I’ve ever read. A bunch of grown men pining over a beautiful, young lad.. GAY!
And to think, Wilde was just putting this out willy-nilly and the government only suspected him later.. ma’am I could smell the queer miles away!!

I promise I’m actually reading all these books! I just can’t stop.

I realise this is a retelling from a female perspective and I admit to not reading Dracula however.. I don’t care. Don’t think it’ll spoil much :)

I realise I’m devouring books. I just know if I stop I don’t know when I’ll start again 🙃

I judged thee too quick... though it was a rather slow journey

My mistake to believe this book would be just as wordy and dense as it’s predecessor