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anachronism?

Oh, Lewis. I don't think he's gonna work out like you hope.

Another rather abrupt feeling step.

well that was abrupt. I'm beginning to wonder if this is intended as a series opener and isn't going to develop as much as I'd like

so far, it's a bit mopey, not what I'm used to from Thornton. and the % complete has advanced more than the story seems to have. i assume there will be a love interest, but it's not clear who if so. interested to see where this goes.

Leyendecker reference 👍

well, that was a lot of drama

Woo hoo! :)

this is good but i keep waiting for something horrible to happen and it's kinda distracting.

bash making progress

bash is very lacking in the self awareness department, which usually i have problems with, but it's good.

never been a fan of scatological humor, but i'll try not to hold it against sandro. this is gonna be a harder sell for me than teenage dirtbags was cuz it's jock x jock, but i expect it to be good anyway.

dude is kinda overly excited about the possibility Baldwin and Brando slept together

must sleep, much as I'd rather keep going

Done with Eleanor's section. But was it true?
Obviously, not done yet, but based on what I've read so far it's better than Laura. Annoying that most of her work is out of print.

Caspary is seriously underrated.

Really enjoying this. There's something special in the writing, vivid and lively. Lola is a riot, seems like she'd be right at home with Nick and Nora. I've been too busy to read much lately but maybe Monday.

don't often encounter a new word in a novel. "anent", I thought it was a ocr error at first, but no.

Like Laura, the structure here is unusual. Enjoyed the first part, hopefully the other povs won't be awful.

ok, another sex scene, proper one this time. but omg it was soooooo loooong. booooriiiiiing. i almost died. some skimming may have (definitely) occurred.

was not expecting the action adventure plot. 1 sex scene so far, sort of

Ok, I was thinking this was a lot stronger at the intimacy and attraction between the Augusts than with the plot, but damn, that was an unexpected turn of events with the "ex" there. Also no sex yet, which is a good sign 👍as I was a bit worried this was gonna turn out to be just a flimsy excuse for smut.

look, man. I don't make the rules. I have to read this. Cuz of reasons.

it's comforting to me to see all the ways Baldwin really did not have his shit together, and still he managed to be absolutely amazing

is this my best read of the year so far? def in the top 2.

good bit about Another Country in that last chunk. much more interesting than travel details. please give me a 700 page book of Baldwin explaining his intent and thinking re his own novels.

point of reading this again immediately is to pay attention to how the author is doing things, but sometimes I'm confused about the order and timing of scenes cuz idk which readthru I remember them from