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now that i’m reading it, I find it hilarious and ironic that this book was recommended to me while at a speed-dating event, but also I want to track that woman down and be like oh I get it girl

she’s done it again, I can already tell

loooove this book so far

this book repeatedly mentioning both a world cup and the odyssey is so summer 2026 coded

had to take a break with the new lex croucher not because I wasn’t enjoying it but because it was impossible to read a dark academia book in a heatwave, a haunted school needs autumnal weather!! so i’ve swapped it for an italian summer book instead

ivan chapter: sweet baby angel
peter chapter: demon from hell

in the last ten pages this book has spoiled the endings of: breaking bad, moby dick and mrs dalloway
and like yeah I guess it’s unreasonable to expect not to be spoiled for such old pieces of media but like damn give me a break! three in a row!

doing a reread incited by my recent obsession with the film, this time i’m underlining every eva stratt line and picturing sandra hüller and drawing little hearts next to every description of my stern wife

I started reading this bc I remembered a tiktoker saying it was set in east london - it literally could not be further from set in east london, what book was I thinking of omg

low-key getting book club vibes from this, book club comrades

calla henkel is back baby

still sick with the flu two weeks in, still comfort rereading old favourites

having the flu and not leaving the house for a week is overall bad, but boy has it been good for my reading goal, this is my fourth book this week

book of all time!!! jealous of everyone who hasn’t read this yet and gets to read it for the first time

i’ve been sick all week, time for the big guns - comfort reread of my favourite emily henry

this book has me seriously wondering whether I need to learn some survival skills in case I ever wake up as the last woman on earth

sebastian flyte the original manic pixie dream girl

nobody look at me

rereading an emily henry book the day after finishing heated rivalry is like seeing a child’s drawing of the mona lisa and then the real thing

i’m off work sick today and am gonna see how much of this ridiculous book I can read

I hope they manage it

eliza suggested a buddy reread of this series and then I blinked and I was halfway through book one. I wondered if it would hit as hard when I wasn’t in the midst of a menty b like the first time I read these books - thrilled to report it does indeed hit just as hard

EM forster autumn baby

what if the real hell was the cambridge university we studied at along the way

one thing that stays consistent between child and adult theo is how catty he is, the way he talked about xandra as a kid is how he talks about pippa’s boyfriend as an adult, sooo funny

why do I get the feeling scurvy isn’t even gonna be the half of what these guys have coming for them

can you all please read the goldfinch and talk about it with me because I have so many thoughts thank you

theo’s dad should be tried in the hague!!!!!! I hate him so much!!!!!

maybe this reread theo won’t have to go to vegas with his evil father and he could move in with hobie and everything won’t be so terrible forever

embarking upon a reread before I go and see the real life goldfinch painting jn the hague at the end of the month!!!

all i’m doing this summer is reading devastatingly romantic classic novels (also watching love island, I contain multitudes)