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In this worldview, the gates of heaven are not kept by humanlike angels, but by pine trees and stink bugs..."

We all engage in special earthly pacts, trading energy through water, sunlight, iron, and sugar, each of us taking and contributing, each of us necessarily different.

If there's a pregnancy in a horror at some point she's gonna be eating raw meat 🙄

I keep going back and forth on this book. The mystery is intriguing, the writing isn't that good though.

I thought the main character would be easier to feel for, as I have also been a parent with a child who refused to sleep and has had "bad days". But leaving your child ALONE for HOURS? And then refusing to acknowledge how bad that is??? Big yikes.

"Is this life? Even so it would give me the slip."

"I don't miss it, because I have my childhood more now than when it was happening."

"How on earth might one contain one's intolerable, overpowering, private yearnings? Where is a woman to put her energies? How is she to express her longings? What can she do to exercise her potential and affect the lives of others? What, in the end, is a young woman to do with herself?"

Gah this first story has me in tears

I’m sorry but this is the book that has the internet wild and won a category of the Goodreads awards?? I’m only 9% in and this is the most boring repetitive shit!

Some of these scenes read like a Fucking 101 class and not in a sexy way 🙄

Finally! Some well written smut.

I’m only reading this because a booktuber said its about dehumanization under capitalism…👀