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ok actually shes annoying as fuck. god i fucking hate depressed people but they probably hate themselves more so whatever. jeeeesus christ.

she can be a staid, boring, hateful protagonist. complimentary bc i can tell its on purpose

ok fine i like it again

UGH. now shes pissing me off. letting the plot slip past her like a fucking chump. girl wake the fuck up and smell the psychological experimentation

"I was his lens if he would only raise me and look with me."

lets all blow up and die. pet theory that theyve alrd brought people back (the bal-- whatever guy). the expats are cover for smth else (obv). graham goes back in time to his og timeline, and shes writing letters to him.

"I don’t think he was boasting but rather trying to find a way to relate to me, a permutation of womanhood rendered sexless by authority. I came to understand that this bothered me, and I felt embarrassed about that, as if I’d been caught complaining that men on the street had stopped catcalling."

i really love the internal voice!! so sharp, so witty, so self-deprecating. but i struggled with some of the dialogue that tries too hard to be Hitchhiker's Guide and not enough its own thing.

THESE WEED SMOKING TIME TRAVELLERS ARE INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN WITH THE WOKE MIND VIRUS.... More at 6

so freaking good

130/209

weird!

still havent seen these FUCKING aliens

cool intro! the space-y stuff is lingering in the bg but im excited for whats to come

its getting fun!!

super cute beginning, love will scott, dont love the aunt marriage, whatever!

oh she cooked…

so good,,, i LOVE a good setpiece

love lymond so much. so much intrigue!!! so many needles to be threaded!!!! the fact that dunnett can even hold so many ideas in her head, nevermind writing it, nevermind making it historically accurate, is insane to me. shes a towering genius of fiction.

GIRL... be so fucking fr rn

GIRL... be so fucking fr rn

very strong first half, always love weike wang's insights and ability to critique family without resorting to caricature

2nd half less intriguing, i hate unhappy marriages

very strong first half, always love weike wang's insights and ability to critique family without resorting to caricature

i change my mind; i actually really like the scenes with R. i feel like the contrast really brings out the main characters personality.

still find the novel scenes a bit on the nose metaphorically speaking.. human = typewriter, man = memory police, voice = human spirit or whatever

thank god R has a wife.... thought it was giving reverse jane eyre for a minute there

the descriptions of how memory feels is beautiful. dont rlly care for the novel passage excerpts tho feels a little too surreal and abstract for me

wow i wonder if this whole its too late for humanity sentiment Haushofer expresses has anything to do with growing up as a liberal arts college student during WWII...

not liking the Ara plotline very much cus why the fuck would u do that lol totally out of left field