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Reading about Nazi hunters on Christmas morning, as one does

Lucy Maud Montgomery was really out here writing fake relationship to lovers romance in the year of our Lord 1926

Valancy Stirling 🤝 Lucy Honeychurch
young women trying to break free of convention and yearning to love and be loved in return

this is really the book i've been looking for for maybe my whole life

this book reminds me of The Secret History in that there is a whole world in here. also I love it

thirty pages in and i'm already freaking obsessed

this girly needs treatment for anxiety, depression, and extremely obvious alcoholism, not whatever the fuck SOPHIE is hooking her up with

something witchy for spooky season ✨

reading for work book club! already enjoying this although SWW does seem insanely idealistic, knowing what we all know now about FB/Meta...

already LOVING this -- like the best of Sally Rooney IMO

This is a rough read for someone with health anxiety lol but I still can't put it down!

as someone who has had multiple friends drop them with no explanation, I relate to the main character in that I too would go all the way to Venice to find out why a friend dropped me

I just love reading pages of untranslated French in a dubiously English novel

this one is for the girlies with health anxiety <3 xxxxx

like Ottessa Moshfegh on crack cocaine, which is really & truly saying something

Margot Peters is the role Anya Taylor-Joy was born to play (after Beth Harmon, of course). I just hope we get to see that movie before she ages out of being able to play it!

this is truly just My Year of Rest and Relaxation in 2016 with a queer Palestinian protagonist. I'm enjoying it but it's not at all original

Nothing quite as entertaining as a good old madcap Muriel Spark novel

a properly excellent novel

got the goooooods! and already pissed off about Peter's staccato narration :-)

finally, a book about Reddit rabbit holes <3 jk I love this already, Broder is a genius

at the age of 28 I now understand that Adam was quite literally having Vicky do his project for him lmao 😭

this is a covert Catholic book!!!! also I love it!!!!

narrator: hello how are you?
random person off the street: *tells narrator their entire life story complete with musings on the nature of life and love and with no room for the narrator to interject at all*
random person off the street: well it was great talking to you!

that's literally this entire book

Me: I’m so glad I never have to climb Mount Everest
My grandma: well, never say never

sometimes I think I’ve read all of the great books and that there are no more good books but then something always comes along and surprises me. Anyway this one is excellent and so charming and fun

this just in: Mary McCarthy caused the 1966 Flood of Florence

I literally can't imagine what I got out of this when I read this as a senior in high school because I barely understand it now!!
the hubris of my AP Lit teacher for thinking that he could make bored 17-year-olds in rural Vermont read absurdist theater and have them understand it!!! it DID kinda change my life tho so.... props to Mr. J I guess

really enjoying telling everyone I know fun yet horrifying facts about the sinking of the Titanic