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"what are monsters but creatures of agency?"

I don't often read books by men and this is reminding me why

Still waiting for it to be scary 🥱

Audiobooks are trying to do too much all of a sudden. I don't need sound effects. I don't want to feel like I'm listening to an old timey radio program. Just read me the book.

"Might I suggest that Plath, even in death, is policed by a good old boys club that amounts, in word and deed, to the poetry cops?"

"When yet another young woman is haunted, or hunted, by a danger so keen she dies of it, what story do we tell ourselves about it so that we can move on?"

I knew this was going to be infuriating but oooh buddy

Too long, too boring.

Oh my god. This is an "authorized" sequel to The Haunting of Hill House. My love of Shirley Jackson is the only thing keeping me hanging on through the incessant yammering (and singing and Shakespeare recitations) of these theatre people. I hope the house eats them all.

I'd gotten so used to Plath's voice peppering the narration, from letters, diary entries, her calendar, etc. but since her ex took it upon himself to destroy or hide her writings up to her suicide, her voice is conspicuously absent from this chapter of the book, even tho she hasn't died yet. I hate how effective he was at silencing her, even now.