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This bitch is so useless, I need her to start biting people

“Sometimes she wished ‘needed’ felt less like a synonym for ‘useful’”

When will women be free!!

This book is too long for its own good. I think she crafts sentences really well but I was really put off by her comparing her relationship to her ex as that of a boxer and a punching bag. I know her husband is awful, but physical abuse was never an issue within their marriage. I think that kind of need to see things as metaphor actually shrouds and obscures the truth of what happened.

I can’t lie, it’s slow, it has these really interesting moments but then there are whole stretches that feel long and drawn out. I don’t think that’s necessary a knock on the author; I tend to gravitate towards tight, specific storytelling. Say what you want to say in as few words as possible. Waters’s approach is far more like why use one word when 14 will do.

The long currently reading list mean my library loan ran out on those

The fact that Raymond was receiving an honorary knighthood the same day he told a reporter he felt no personal responsibility for the factory explosion and ensuing deaths that his family’s negligence and greed caused…this family is the worst group of people to ever walk the earth

Rich people are such babies it’s crazy

Arthur sackler was such a fucking loser