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So nice to get so much Lucretia. She's my favorite. I need to do a full relisten

Oh oops I never read Story and Song? I thought I got a review copy. Oh well, it's not like I don't know the story

The direct quotes from Addams Family movies is getting old. I know it's supposed to be cute but I'm not feeling it

I feel so sure that the cover artist was inspired by the Taste music video. This could not be more Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega

This is more of a "good for them" but since I'm quoting Lucille Bluth anyway, it stands. I thought it was important to not just have happy little exciting woman kills a man and gets away with it type thrillers for Good For Her Summer

Listen, I know Ted Kennedy is dead, but is he dead enough?

Feminine rage and revenge, or maybe just an unhinged protagonist- any suggestions for my “Good for Her” summer?

I want an unhinged protagonist so bad, but then the secondhand embarrassment hits and also I am so empathetic that I end up wanting bad people (characters) to get what they want

I think I left this on my currently reading as a promise? I know I brought this to read in a dermatologist's waiting room for a mole check that would result in a biopsy and a melanoma diagnosis. So I didn't get back to it. Now I'm going forward again

There it is! Bilal is seventeen and three quarters

My kingdom for anyone telling me how old these kids are. 14 is described as being a long time ago, but Octavius is at boarding school. 17? 18? Did I miss it?

Ok I need a break from tragedies about doomed women and horror novels that are a metaphor for grief. I need to do some fun reads

I know everyone describes Natalie as a horrible and unlikable person/character but other than her as a mother, I'm more sad for her. She didn't really have a chance

Maybe it's because I just read God of the Woods and the mom in that was similar and heartbreaking. She just couldn't have had a different life, it was essentially prewritten

I’m enjoying this book. It’s a good book. But man is it HARD. I’m a mom and I love my kids with the ferocity Alice loves Bear and every single Alice chapter I am trying to read the words more than the meaning because I just can’t do it

Come for the overarching death mystery, stay for the friendships and life changes of a 60 year old woman

I lost interest while still in her high school days, if I get this audiobook again from the library I might skip ahead to her career

comfort audio book listen as I try to knit this sweater as fast as humanly possible

I have an "attention" shelf that is full of books I was at one point "excited to read next!" or have been recommended to me, like on reddit, more than once. It has gotten out of control and this year I would really like to read or re-shelve as many as possible

I love writing a thoughtful and detailed review and when I click submit there's an error page. You think I can think those thoughts in that order again???

I've had 19 four or five star reads this year, 9 of which were five star. That's pretty unusual for me. I wonder if my depressed book slump and life difficulties have had me looking through my TBR for books I thought were more likely to appeal to me. Not consciously, at least.

This audiobook narrator is great

I am finding this SO boring

Ok looking at the 55 books I read this year, it seems like NONE are from a black author! I need to change that asap

“She looked like the first abandoned draft for what would become Tilda Swinton”

I think I want to read more shorter fiction next year, since I do love when a book has a coherent thought, says it, and ends. Looking for recommendations of novellas and short story collections and short books

If my youngest does well in preschool and starts going more often, maybe I could reach for a 100 book goal next year. Audiobooks on walks and doing housework seem a lot more do-able when there isn't a 3 year old soaking it up too

I had that feeling on the back of my neck that I'd read this before, even though what I was actually reading didn't seem particularly familiar, but then we got to the balloons and I've definitely read this before, probably one of the times I was on a kick of googling "famous reddit nosleep stories" and it was archived somewhere because it was being published