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Needed to read something different to distract myself from thinking any original thoughts and holy shit this is good ahhhhhhhh

“If these victories seem improbable, I invite you to recall the narrative power of redemption stories. America loves a sinner, lucky for me.”

Oh they’re crazy !

“…you can die inside a fantasy of yourself.”

A transgressive-haunted-house novel set in the DFW suburbs ?!?!? Count me in !!!

An English professor who’s gained notoriety by marrying his grad student & taking to mentoring undergrads ?! sounds familiar oooop

Reading novels set in your current place of residence is so fun ! I love Portland !

Virgin Suicides + Royal Tenenbaums vibes ?

“Nearly two centuries before the boy who was shot dead at the intersection of First and Bank stood up in his own blood and spoke his name as if it were just given to him, there was a town named Ours, founded by a mysterious and fearsome woman right where the boy had been shot. But perhaps this story begins centuries before then, at the muddy waters of the Apalachiola River…”

Oh this is gonna be GOOD

Would love to ask everyone who has read this if they also watched TLC’s “Monsters Inside Me” (2009-2017) while staying home sick from school as a child🧍‍♀️

Deleuze jumpscare !

“You could almost say I did him a favor.”
Kind of Cell Block Tango-coded & I’m not mad about it !! Side note: it’s so refreshing to read contemporary fiction that’s fun™️ but not written to cause severe brain rot

“In retrospect, it’s easy to see how I should have known better.” (real)

“I may have been shortsighted with lust, but I wasn’t crazy.” (also real)

“The woman fulfilled so many of Mallory’s wants but left so many wants unfulfilled that the feeling of wanting in and of itself became desirable. There was an untouchable intensity, or an intense untouchability, to keeping a secret, to having a continuous crush, that Mallory wanted never to lose.”

“His earliest sense of self was as a distant figure: there in the foreground was his family; here, at the limit of the far view, was he.”

UGH I FORGOT HOW GOOD THIS WAS

RIP Patrick Bateman you would have loved OOTDs 😓

one of these days I will actually finish a book I swear !

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Pre-Carol Carol Midwestern sorority edition™️

“My cock!” he shouted. “My fucking cock!” As last words went, they may not have been profound, but they were certainly appropriate.

CACKLING NERVOUSLY BECAUSE HOW CAN SOMETHING SO UTTERLY DISTURBING BE SO FUNNY

I fear I may be entering my cultural criticism era

“Muriel Margaret McAuley was eighty-four years old the first time she saw a man turned inside-out by a sea monster.”
OKAY OPENING LINE !!

would love to know the thought process behind so many of these stories featuring people sh!tting on the street !!