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"Girls don't smoke Marlboros."

this book is triggering me in ways that I am either going to love or absolutely loathe with my entire being. at the moment, it's leaning towards the latter. we'll see how it goes though.

taking me awhile to get through this... the writing is beautiful, the pace is painfully slow

you know what. I've read this book so many times. i think this is the first time i actually understand it.

picked this book up because i haven't read it since i was a teenager (and i hated it... but also reread it 5 times over). seeing if i have different feelings towards it... i am having different feelings towards it.

i'm just so curious about where this is going... i feel like whatever 'twists' are going to happen in the last 100 or so pages of this book are going to be silly...


10 points for the inclusion of a nonbinary character. it was a delightful surprise.

if the twist is something like that the sister isn't really sick, or that the stalker is the sister/mom and/or lee, i'm gonna be disappointed in this book. i know the ending is goofy... i do like the whole loneliness and desperation things going on, and i can tell this isn't as serious as it could be and that is okay...

matt dinniman is cooking... the unfortunate part is that i'm really gonna have to read all 8 books to really get to the nitty gritty good stuff, huh

hundred pages in and i get it. this is a book unlike anything i have ever read before. i am itching for a little more plot to happen, to get into the higher ups of this whole thing but i can feel myself being invested.

the most disappointing thing so far is realizing im gonna have to buy all 7 books.

"You've never been beyond. And I have and I know what it looks like there."
oh ellen... me too.

nearing the end... just like the first time i don't want it to yet. been taking my time with this one and really enjoying it but dam... i already miss reading it

"He must do nothing to make this meeting their last; he must leave their future in her care, asking only that she keep fast hold of it."

Ellen, i know what it's like. ellen i think i understand you more than anything else. this is the part of the book where i begin to get ripped apart piece by piece.

there is something so incredibly real about this book, despite how far away it feels to read about NY Gilded Age. Reminds me of this quote:

"You read something which you though only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important."

been reading so much that i feel a slump coming on... attempting to alleivate it by reading some of my 'greats'. this book does something to me...