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(it's called the Hill bc it feels like a slog to finish ok ok sorry)

Is there a reason all the IWW grads write like this or am I just projecting

I know it's like hack or whatever to be an Emma Cline stan in 2026 but she really is Out Here Doing It on another level my GOD

M I L L E N I A L S

Putting a ban on the phrase "Inspired by The Virgin Suicides" until we can figure out what the hell is going on

Whoever said Madeline Cash was trying to do a "Dimes Square Jonathan Franzen" thing was sooooo on the money omg

Truly why are people trying to Do Discourse about this book lmfaooooo it's like trying to dissect cotton candy babes

Lee quietly holding down the entire Trask estate while Adam basically just steps on rakes for his entire life....something something metaphor for immigrant labor building America while white people take credit something something

It's wild that Steinbeck has created a really complicated and compelling character in Cathy, almost like she's so complex and tortured even he can't understand her, but every time she opens her mouth in the back half of the novel her dialogue is like "rahhhh I love being evil" lol

Yes I'm reading it again don't @ me. I'm not missing out on East of Eden Summer like I missed out on Lonesome Dove Summer ok!!!!

Olga Tokarczuk: I wrote a book about strange old woman who lives in the woods and freaks people out

Me, every time: Say less

Discourse aside, if she doesn't start throttling back on those triple exclamation points and all-caps parentheticals real soon I'm tapping out fr