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Ok I didn’t realize this was completely separate and kept wondering how the boarding school stuff was going to be related to the hormone apocalypse 💀

Something v special about finally reading the work of someone you’ve heard speak a lot

I can hear her voice in my head while I read, because I’ve heard her inflections enough to see her writing and know how she would say this

its possible i liked this novel better when it was called My Real Children by Jo Walton

or maybe when it was called The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

i'm always done with marvel until there's another thing that i find interesting

The inside baseball on Protestant sects is beyond me tbh: “She kept in mind the old prompt that a Methodist was a Baptist who had learned to read; a Presbyterian a Methodist who had gone to college; and an Episcopalian a Presbyterian who had joined the Social Register.”

I don’t mean to get too hyped but

Is this going to resolve into a throuple??????

Not good when the primary question a memoir elicits is “why are you telling me this”

The way I forgot this was about a merman until now 👀👀👀

who told me to read this

“For the child I was. I will spend my entire life trying to make up for the fact that when I was you, I didn’t run soon enough.”

Ouch just hit me next time

the murderbot's disdain for busy work and love of serials is so relatable

jesus christ maybe this was the wrong thing to listen to

i am crying

“Chloe, we’re gay. We can’t do math.” 💀

every thing i read from patricia lockwood interlocks with everything else i've read from her

i didn't know that this was an essential puzzle piece to both Rape Joke and No One is Talking About This until i started it

I’m reading again except do the weird poems count as reading

"Another woman reported that once she returned to a full-time job, she was much happier, and she said that her relationship with her children was much improved. 'When I was a more dutiful mother in the traditional sense I was certainly a crosser one,' this mother said."

same same same same same

“I have mommy issues” but make it magic

… ok so we have another ambiguously gendered main character

"Sasha was looking downtown, and he followed her eyes to the empty space where the Twin Towers had been. 'There should be *something*, you know?' she said, not looking at Bennie. 'Like an echo. or an outline.'"

Did I feel like it was "too soon" when I first read this in 2010 or did I not even notice? Tired of COVID in novels in 2022, when did I start/stop noticing 9/11 being casually thrown in?

Help

I just noticed that the tagline is “The end of the world is nuts”

🙃

plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot what plot

oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit

The octopus is a POV character

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

“Everyone has loving and wise ancestors,” the event announcement said, “and by reaching out for their support we access tremendous vitality for personal and family healing.”


Lmao no.

My mother would connect deeply to this book

If she ever deigned to read

(she wouldn’t)

This is not a compliment but it’s not necessarily negative

I have my own ancestor trouble

>”I was so confused by your book,” a woman in Dallas said. “There were all these strands, narratively speaking, all these characters, and I felt like I was waiting for them to connect, but they didn’t, ultimately. The book just ended.“

Emily St John Mandel is aware of how I feel about Station Eleven.

The face I made when I realized this has stuff from glass hotel in it 😤

Somehow this person and her sister (mom of two! Another on the way!) are on a MONTH LONG VACATION??? The kids aren’t there??? How does one take a month long vacation away from spouse and kids????

is... cinderella the baddie????