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I am reading this partially to show my mother, who is loving and understanding in many ways but also a massive TERF. I want her to see how low the underbelly of her ideology hangs, and also to understand where my racist father falls into these seedy areas. Unfortunately, I just learned the author is trans, and now I know she won’t take anything he writes seriously.

Told my girlfriend about Jonathan and David’s homoerotic relationship and she said she’d never heard it referenced and ten minutes later there it was on page

Very simple, to the point of disappointment. Beautiful, beautiful art and concepts

chapter 36. i am so invested in these characters, especially fineboy

currently super interested in Nigeria, especially Lagos, so figured I’d pick up some literature set there! So far, very well written & I am enjoying immensely

the writing is fine. I wish it were better, but I’m glad it was written nonetheless.

shockingly good so far and very relevant. glimpses under the hood of the starving artist

it is interesting how being able creative work is so often a privileged position

and thus most of the art we consume comes from those so privileged

someone please cheer on my progress ! ! i am still chugging away ! !

words cannot express how personally challenging I am finding it to read this.
I am equal parts frustrated and bewitched by Nabokov’s heady prose, and, besides, completely uninterested in the plot.
It’s been like a month of trying to read this at every interval and I have not been “sucked in” once. It’s just me running up against stodgy sentences and chipping my teeth. Seeing the forest for the trees etc

such an odd antagonist

lowkey this is better than midnight at bookstore whatever

This is so good and so fucking hard to read. NOT an eyes skate over the page sort of book.
obtrusive prose.

poem: FINISHED! Not what I expected. much to chew on. meter does not concern this man

interesting… this guy still writes just like I do

40+ page introduction. lord deliver me

Reading for thesis. More trite than I’d hoped, but with an intelligent voice.

Christ, how bleak. I am still the young and idealistic, Markson the old and pragmatic. I see him as my elder; if he is so defeated, I must be also.

This is the year I finally tackle this damn series. THIS. IS. THE. YEAR.

Stephanie Garber never ever writes anything of substance. All action and description. Reading is just being pulled along a line towards her destination (FMC & MMC kissing). Her characters make nary an observation about the world. The books feel like empty little shells. Not a great writer. Maybe not even a good writer. But she sells!

Took this from a free bin at the airport. Thank you, free bin at the airport. I am to read the Republic for school, and this gives me great insight into Socrates’ mind and mores. I especially like his musings on death, though I can see why everyone found him so deeply annoying

Oh my god. This is phenomenal. This is articulate, fragmented, and deep. A book like a tapestry, woven. Wow wow wow

People told me there was an implied lesbian relationship in this novel? IMPLIED?? These women are fully and obviously together and have a child?

gasped at this so loud my dad made me put the book down #thriller

the golden handcuffs of high society

reading this just because. in a world where everything is an obligation, including the books I read, it’s so wonderful to do something just because