Madeleine > Recent Status Updates

It must be known I’m having the time of my life! This book is spiritually the omegaverse

I’m like 2 chapters in and the set up is this:
- they see each other at the world fair and don’t really speak but know they have to fuck. They fuck behind a screen. In public! It’s Victorian era England!
- He is surprised the fuck is so good bc he has an enormous cock. Like really massive! Defies the laws of physics huge! And she has a magical cervix. The best cervix he’s experienced. He must have her!

I need to adjust my expectations a bit. I do not think this was written for queers. It’s about us sure, written by one of us, but for us? Nah.

“I need this” I whisper to myself as I pull up my next teen slasher with poor reviews

This has gone in an incredibly wacky direction? Like when I picked this up I had a very different idea of what this would be

I think I like it??? I can’t tell!!

Why I start books the week of my performance is beyond me!! This is on the soft DNF pile

A DNF by force bc I have run out of audiobook time :(

Honestly I’m forever at the whims of my library holds! Do I want to read another sports romance? Idk

It’s time. Been saving this one for a rainy day!

It is so unfortunate and I mean so unfortunate that this book came out after the movie heart eyes. Not only am I finding myself comparing it to a scarier and more romantic slasher, she has named her killer heart eyes in this which will invite comparison. Comparison this book cannot compete with!!

Not the fucking Taylor swift lyric come ON now

Also to my bookclub I don’t hate this I just love slashers and am insane about them if they are meta. I’m having fun ngl

So far we have the name Jamie Prescott (after scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis), the red room (twin peaks), the bar is called craven (Wes craven) and the slasher rules are the same as they were in Scream and as established by Men Women and Chainsaws. Rules that have been fucked with since - mostly recently by Stephen Graham Jones. I want HER slant on the slasher not an iteration of what has worked before!!

I think a meta slasher is really hard to pull off. You have to know more than scream, your touchstones gave to extend past the 90s. I’m wondering as I start this what the point of making this referential is? Banking on nostalgia is not inherently interesting if you don’t do anything with it!

It’s slasher season apparently (this is the third I’m reading right now lol)

Fucking. Finally.

This book is built for a bitch like me. I literally cannot put it down!!

Dual timeline slasher, dead mean girls literally haunting the narrative, satanic forest cult, sinister loser men - it’s catnip for me!

Lmao forgot the first book had that fuckass misogynistic group chat! Could really do without it!!

God this is pissing me OFF.

“Feminism apparently lives and dies with white women! Horror is feminist bc I like it and seek it out for comfort!” Is terrible cultural criticism!!

Fucking Mamamia feminist nonsense my GOD

Also would it kill you to just be honest and say you are uninterested in horror as it intersects with all feminism? This is only about white women. The scope doesn’t extend beyond that!

It also props up liberalism as the be all end all - an annoying stance to take given what liberalism has let slide (war crimes, deportation etc etc.)

I also find her inability to talk about how many directors were abusers to be bad cultural critique! Rosemary’s Baby is in my opinion a feminist work but that movie was directed by a man who raped a 13 year old girl. What does this say about feminism that horrible men can adapt feminist stories? What does it say about us that we can like things made by monstrous men? Questions the author doesn’t care about.

It is OKAY to like media that is not feminist, it is fine to read things through a feminist lens even if it does not present that way, it’s okay to point out the flaws in a work that meant well.

What this work does is try to make moral arguments to justify enjoying something. Which to me is a really strange instinct!

There’s something kind of annoying about this? I think it’s that she’s bending over backwards to call works feminist because they can be interpreted in that way. There are no case studies, no actual correlation, she’s just making sweeping statements about how the exorcist helped people consider domestic violence with no thorough argument? Also it’s such a white feminist text.

These fear street books are doing a lot for my mental health.

Camp YA horror from the 90s-2000s please save me ❤️

I am desperate for a book to hit me right in the chest. I keep dnfing or getting frustrated and I loved the first book in this series so I’m begging for it to work!!

I just don’t give a shit. DNF at 20%.

Too twee, too boring, annoying as hell!

Netflix has this policy of second screen viewing where they repeat plot points for people who are on their phones. In doing so TV shows are getting dumbed down and things are getting repetitive. Audiences everywhere feel talked down to. Anyway, this book feels like that.

“Just his luck that the sensation of dancing with her had branded itself on his daydreams. She was like a palmful of mercury: achingly lustrous in light or gloom, slipping cool through his fingers. Gone before he could catch his fist closed.”

Yearning is so fucking back!!!

This is so twee I fear I’m not going to be any less of a hater! Manifesting it gets better!!

Finally got this book from the library after waiting months! Guess I am putting everything aside for it lmao

Going into this with an open heart and mind! This is my year (I’m going to be less of a hater at romance bookclub!)