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“Don't you find that sometimes you just want to wear something really slutty?” is a sentence I never thought I’d have read in a Rachel Cusk novel.

Why is this reminding me of Tao Lin?

“ ‘Yeah,’ he said in a soft voice. ‘I loved this neighborhood, though. All the trees and the way the coyotes howl at night.’ “

This is not okay 😭

This isn’t what I signed up for 😢😢😢

“Once, when he'd been on mescaline, Bruce had decided that if he drank orange juice each morning he'd never feel lonely again. Now he gazed in Tim's bloodshot eyes, then Miguel's, and thought that if he looked in them every day he'd stay happy.”

It’s so interesting reading this knowing what he would go onto write.

😢😢 😢

The inclusion of Trump is kind of cringe

This is a lot better than I thought it would be.

“The future, to me, was something that would just happen.”

This is quite overwritten . . . struggling to get into it

I want to enjoy this more than I am, but something isn’t quite clicking. I feel it might’ve worked better as a podcast . . .

“I wanted to fix you.” 🥺

This is so much better than "Before the Coffee Gets Cold".

“It was nothing, less than nothing, a loveless clot of bad blood, just something he had done, like other things, not a miracle but a mistake. It had the consistency of an idea, and he could refute it. He could choose, really, not to care about it at all, switch off feelings like lights in a house. He would have a bath and then cook dinner. He saw himself reading the paper while he ate.”

This is actually infuriating 😂 Like just shut the fuck up and own your shit!!

“She mistook death for a compliment, and when finally she realised that this dark stranger was not a prince but an assassin, she struggled vainly to get away.”

“She found that when she had sex she could be free for a while from her hatred of her body, but she had to overcome her fear of disgust first.”

Incredibly dense. Not the kind of thing I should be trying to read at 11pm.

This really is the juvenile version of “American Psycho”. Edgy for edgy sake, without the humour or sharpness of Ellis’ prose. It’s hard to believe this book received the praise it did . . .

This feels longer than it needs to be... (it's still good though)

Okay. So parts of this are really good. But ugh, others are fucking insufferable, and I know that’s the point, but it doesn’t make for an enjoyable reading experience.

Okay. So parts of this are really good. But ugh, others are fucking insufferable, and I know that’s the point, but it doesn’t make for an enjoyable reading experience.

Okay, so I’ve finished “Kitchen” / about to start “Moonlight Shadow” and I’m a little underwhelmed. It’s one of those cases where it feels like I’ve read a different book to everyone else.

“The Premonition” was a lot better…

"I can do things."
"Like what?"
"I could be a carpenter."
"Why do men always—" she started. "You couldn't be a carpenter."
"I'm handy. I can fix things."
"What things?"
"I fixed the lightbulb the other day."

Oh, come on! Really?! 🙄

"She felt sad thinking about all the things that used to bring her pleasure and how now they just made her want to scream and die."