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Started reading this last night but didn’t absorb any of it. I have no idea what’s going on. Only thing I got is l that everyone thinks Mr tansley is boring.

I was probs too sleepy

I vaguely remember feeling similar when starting Mrs dalloway, and I ended up liking it. So hopefully it (/ my reading ability) gets better

I feel like I have more to say but idk how to write it haha. I liked the exploration of Oural’s character. Her fighting and her competence as Queen surprised me (considering the time it was written, and I’d thought c.s Lewis was more conservative). Part two as an amendment was rlly cool and fun. Would probs be keen to reread it one day

Really really liked this!! Especially towards the end. Highlighted so many passages. When I started I was like ehh is this really C.S Lewis’s greatest novel but on finishing I can believe it (though this is the only book of his I’ve read). Capital V Great.

Glad I picked it up. The story of eres and psyche was my fave out of Stephen Fry’s mythos.

Part two??? 80% of the way in?? Cwazy

Mmmm some more complicated sister jealousy in this book

I’m preeeeetty sure I remember this myth from mythos, but I’m not totally sure. I think it was my favourite

I liked it, easy read, page turner

Unfortunately I was spoiled oh well. I wonder how much I would have caught on if I was unspoiled. Still enjoyed it though

Watching clips of the tv show now hehe

Geez louise

Wondering how spoiled I am for this.

I watched the last scene of the tv show some years ago (after seeing it talked abt on YouTube). I thiiink it revealed who the killer was. But also I’m not sure if the tv show and the book were aligned bc that character doesn’t seem to exist in this (yet at least). I’d prefer to not be spoiled so I hope the ending is different haha

Keen to hear what book club thinks of the book, and also see how it’s being received generally by the public.

It’s a good critique of outrage culture. It’d be great if the internet and people moved past this kind of thing. With how the world is right now I have no idea if stuff like this is going to get better or worse with time.

The change at the end was unexpected and fun. Being vague here bc the rest of book club are still reading and also have goodreads

This book made me glad that I don’t have as many hang ups abt bad experiences in primary/high school. At least I don’t THINK I do lol. I feel like i processed a lot of it in my early 20s thankfully. Being inside these characters heads made me glad i don’t think like that now

“Every woman I admire is hated for something.”

Fuck, I love that as the ending line for the acknowledgements

Really liked this book. Fast and easy read, and very relevant. The internet/social media parts reminded me a loooooot of ‘nobody is talking about this’ by Patricia Lockwood. Even with the baby stuff too

Probs a 4.5 for me. At times it felt more like an essay/opinion piece than a novel

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Eeeeee 😬😬😬😬

Aaaaa oof this year 7 memory is painful 😣😣

I did not expect to cry as much as I did in the lead up to the last tournament. Maybe I’m more emotional on planes, maybe it’s my period, I don’t know. I like how it ended too. I was hoping it would end this way

I feel like this would be a fun movie. Gimme more tennis movies

Really loved this! Lots of fun. I don’t think I have one complaint. Perfect for my trip to Melb for the aus open (though I did not enjoy our day at the open lol it was way too crowded)

I feel like I should retrospectively lower my rating for Atmosphere, since I gave that a 5, but I think this is way way better. I remember Laura saying this was her favourite too

I don’t understand all this Spanish :(

Am I supposed to be Google translating as I go? Or is it assumed that readers have a good handle on Spanish?

Omg aaAAAAHH 😝😝😝😝😝

Fun so far. Finished the aus open bits in time before we go to watch irl tomorrow

Reading as prep for Sunday (going to Melb for the Australian open)

Oop nvm turns out I only had a sentence left anyway (read it on my phone)

Book was gewd, I liked it. I think I liked the characters more in A room with a view. Highlighted more lines in this one though

Keen to rewatch the movie

The movie made me think Helen’s affair would be way more romantic than it actually is. It barely even seems like she likes him

I’m so close to the end now but my ereader keeps freezing it’s so annoyinggg

“Hen”??? Ooh la la. The plot thickens

also what’s with that one line that was in French. Is it an English thing to apologise in French? But a whole sentence?

Ne crois pas que le mari lui resemble il est tout à fait différent

Maybe an error

“You’re marrying a poor man” ??
Sounds like she’s marrying a LIAR

Crazy that we’re calling Mr Wilcox an “elderly man” at 48 😭😭

Girly got the ick

Was keen to read this original 1818 version after watching the Mary Shelly movie with my parents. Wanted to read the version that she wrote as a teenager, not the one that she edited and updated as an adult (keen to read that one day though).

I also watched Guillermo del toros movie a couple weeks before starting this. The creature is way more cutesie and sweet in that movie omg. Vs how murderous in writing

Finished this last night. Liked it but also may have been a bit distracted in the last chapter bc I kept thinking abt our irl traitors night woopsie

We studied this in yr 12 extension English but im now fairly sure that i did not read one page. I had such a strong memory of reading Frankenstein and his assistant digging up graves - like I thought that’s how the book started - but that did not happen at all???

A bit overcomplicated, but okay. Id rank it lower on the PKD books I’ve read, but it was still enjoyable.

The bit where kongrosian was accidentally extending himself to other objects reminded me of Vita Notre, where the main character did something similar. Fun idea to become a table, then a room, then a house etc

A bit confused so far 😅 there are so many characters and POV switches it’s hard to keep track

Hoping it’ll make more sense as i go on