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As much as I love horror, the “broken family reunion” genre is hard to beat. Strong August: Osage County vibes that I’m really digging

Listening to one of my favorite actors read one of my favorite stories. Paul Giamatti’s narration on the new audiobook is fantastic

Traveling to Vermont today so I had to finally jump in this water

“In the rain,” he said. “It’s cold and miserable and I think I love you and I want to tell you a few things while we walk…”
“Umbrella?”
“No.”

"It's simply a better world if Bigfoot is real," Lynne S. McNeill, a folklorist at Utah State University, told me. "It says something positive about our wilderness spaces. It says we haven't totally destroyed our planet, that there are enough wild places left that a creature like Bigfoot can live undetected.”

“I’m 6, watching Josie and the Pussycats while eating Frute Brute on the floor of my grandpa’s trailer home; tree rings predict climate change; a man in a plaid shirt has lead in his diet, shits his britches, and his car blows up while crossing a scary bridge in Sandpoint, Idaho; somewhere, Charlie Manson is making that face…”

Honestly fairly interesting, just not what I’m in the mood for at the moment.

“This ending was no deterrent. No one who is young is ever going to be old.”

Charles Grant is my comfort place

Not sure what Richard Ramirez has to do with the scary bridge from your hometown in Washington, but aight…

Listening to this on a roadtrip with my folks. My dad is getting more annoyed as it becomes apparent this book is going to be about capitalism instead of serial killers lol

“The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. They condemn themselves before they are charged, and this makes them defensive always.”

“I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.”

Refreshingly unpretentious. This is a blast so far

These two are constantly getting shot with arrows after any sexual tension 😂

So *that’s* why all these ladies keep sayin the wings are hot…

…called it.

This book is *goooooood*

Feyre’s askin a lotta questions, but not the questions I want her to be askin’!

I’d be like:
Okay why does this king want the Mortal Lands? They suck and are only like 1/18th of the world map.
What’s the point of the wall? The king’s on an island, why can’t he just sail further south and bypass the wall?

Also who is the king?? This is the first I’m hearin bout this *ssh*l*!

It is absolutely insane that this came out in 2001 (PRE 9/11!) and it reads *exactly* like something new off the “Popular on BookTok” table at Barnes & Noble.

“The vampire legends of middle Europe are almost identical to the modern UFO lore.”

Look John, I know you’re trying to tie it all together, but you gotta explain this.
Call me old fashioned. I prefer to believe Bigfoot is big and hairy. Vampires aren’t like aliens. And they’re all their own thing. Once we start getting “multidimensional” I start getting less interested lol

“What if UFOs are Tulpas?”

John Keel, you freak. God love ya!
Richard Gere made you seem so normal…

“All that matters is that I was born tonight, and I have done the thing, and it was good to do, and I will do the thing again.”

Incubus talkin like a dadgum millennial

“Vampires like baseball?”
“It’s the American pastime,” he said with mock solemnity.

“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”

“I’m tired of people being ugly to each other…I’m tired of all the times I wanted to help and couldn’t. I’m tired of being in the dark…Mostly it’s the pain. There’s too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can’t.”

“He’s dead.”
“Thank Christ.”

‘The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix’ traumatized me as a child. Reading it was just as frustrating, infuriating, and heartbreaking.

“Do you leave a light on after bedtime? … Because I get a little scared in the dark sometimes…”

😭

When I first read this book years ago, this is the moment where I knew I didn’t just love this story, but I was gripped like nothing else. This is the part of the story where you start to wonder whether Time, not wanting to be changed, could use love against you as sort of a sick weapon. This is the part of the book where you’re screaming “Forget JFK and marry the girl!”

“Goddamned Rolling Stones...”

“JIMLA!”

Decided to start finally reading this whenever I feel like pulling up YouTube. And in that case, I should be done with this by 2PM today.

Reading this alongside annotations by Grant Kellermeyer in his OldStyle Press edition. This dude’s research never fails to astound me