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I have thoughts and sort of wished I had looked at this for my diss alongside Fanny Hill and Fantomina but alas

I know how Taylor swift fans feel rn cuz I feel the same about these two and they’re fictional so I’m worse 😭

Guys I didn’t realise this came out today (the day I submitted my MA dissertation!) and it feels like a little reward from the universe just for me

I love Paul Chowder and I love Nicholson Baker and they are the only ones that can make me willingly read about poetry

For a novel with his name in the title we’re getting very little de Zoet action :/

I wanna like Highsmith sooooo bad but I fear I cannot

I’m already relating to and loving Ava

Nobody has the power to make me squirm like R. Murakamj. This man has a fucked up lil brain

I never thought i’d be the type who has like 5 books on the go but i have so much reading for school that none of my recreational novels are holding my focus for long :(

I probs shouldn’t get annoyed at Emma for being oblivious because she doesn’t know she’s the heroine of a novel after all

How irresistible is this man supposed to be? He’s fucked every woman he’s met so far…

Love that Phuong has absolutely no agency and seems to be bandied about by the whims of white men 🙃

I’d like to have dinner with Greene but I’m afraid he’d think I’m an idiot

Sickening! I never want to have sex again thanks

Thank god for good literature and thank god for the pacific (north) west

I realise I’m meant to be writing my dissertation on erotica but that description of a dick was genuinely so sickening I’m not sure I can stomach anymore.
Side note, but Cleland either *really* adored dick or never saw one in his life because nobody should be that enamoured by one 🤢

To describe the dialogue as wooden would be a disservice to trees

What ze fuque?

Is he meant to be this naive or is he just really stupid

I can’t tell if I’m just being a snob or if I genuinely dislike this book

Got this in a lil blind book date package!

Rereading this book hehehe I missed the band 🥺

WAIT NEVER MIND HANS IS A PRICK KKLL HIM

Girl pull yourself together

Maybe I’m just a cynic but other than age gap what’s the appeal?! Am I meant to be sympathetic?

Her writing is so rich you could stand a metal straw up in it x

This is such a man’s book. There’s been chat about excrement and erections like 2 pages apart ugh

Not to be *that* bitch but is this really the state of pop lit right now?!

Pls don’t be disappointing my mental state is too fragile to be let down by fiction right now

Thanks to Sabrina for giving me this book but oh my word I’m bored of it