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I love this story in history bc everyone is obsessed with proving it happened because two people wrote about it. It simply didn’t happen

This is hate read now. The author should be arrested. He is utterly obsessed with his high school accomplishments

1. Love the implication that only a nuclear war could lead to a female president 2. I want to find out more about the female president

Can only be described as male Anne Carson. I mean, come back, stop laughing, it’s not BAD. But it’s funny they did male Anne Carson

Absolutely hating this book to be honest with you

It’s a freaking twilight novel in here. I’m at the edge of my seat

This book is so stupid I have to finish it so it doesn’t impede my three books a week challenge … it’s just full of received wisdom but applied to deer. No new thoughts

“In the years following the Civil War a horrible malady called “good taste" began to rage throughout the United States. It was the disease of people who were basically unsure of themselves. Those suffering from it became artistically timid, insipid, and sterile.”

These little girls are making terrible decisions. It's like hbo girls (similarly selfish, similarly silly) but too earnest. Also it's sort of funny since there's a character named Mary Agnes whose point is that she only wants to get married and once she does she's happy forever and she's stupid in her contentment. liek the milkmaids in tess of the dubervilles. staggering lack of theory of mind from rona

In the author's note Rona is like this was 775 pages and i was proud to have received no edits. Well it should have received some, to tell you the truth. Still fun though. And it made a billion dollars so who am i

Bessie just sang a song that’s a literal prediction of what will happen to Jane in 500 pages. That’s good writing

This book is good and everything. Hemingway definitely deserved the hype. However I’m here bc someone just said her doctor recommended she drink beer while pregnant to keep her female
Baby small!!! And I needed to share it with someone

good old fashioned page turner

this book is a mondo bummer so far. but very exciting

This book is kind of mediocre so far which is hilarious because it should be a bulletproof concept . Especially considering “the news”

Go we, and seek that which we shall not find !!

scarcely a review but I’m really enjoying this … you get to think about art (the generous law!), friendship (they’re so thrilled to get to talk to each other!), and Life (the treadmill!)

Oh, this is so fun even if slightly exhausting. Probably a great book for reading in short bursts. Perfectly captures the feeling of what it's about (1. Being 21 2. Living in New York 3. Talking to someone who has lived a much more interesting life than you have)

I bought this book to feel indie at the university bookstore and I *am* paying the price of vanity

okay the guy just said that "less had never been translated into another language" but he HAD, the italian translation is a huge part of the FIRST ONE.maybe this is intentional so i have to finish first but i'm at a loss for how to continue. is there someone i call? is there a branch of the fbi that handles this?

At one point this extremely gentle down to earth seeming man does a soliliquoy about how much he enjoys when his ribs get broken. I love this book and i want to charter a flatboat so badly

This book is very messy and open and there are a lot of tangents… I’m enjoying it

A frequent cadenza in that common re-frain, however, involves what might be called the Myth of the Clueless Other: the fervent conviction that it is only other people who are frightened or manipulated by whatever the new machine has brought forth. … any claim by any actor that "Ha ha, we fooled them all!" should be just as much a red flag for the historian as another's conviction that "Ha ha, no one can fool me!"

“Sam Wilkeson…learned that his eldest son, Bayard, a nineteen-year-old artillery lieutenant, had had his leg blown off on the first day and was either a prisoner or a corpse in the hands of the enemy. Sam lived up to the finest traditions of journalism. Later, sitting beside the boy's freshly dug grave, he wrote the Times one of the great dispatches of the war.”

My friend read the back of this book and was like by the way when you aren’t enjoying this book it’s because it’s bad. You’re not in the wrong. It’s just bad. And then …

Okay I’m not sure about this new twist but rest of it … GOD this book is SO good

If I finish this book you have to all tell me you love and are proud of me

sorry mom

i'm not posting a review that's this dumb. but it's about the abyss. you know, our friend the abyss? and when you're in it, everything about the world seems to be sucked into it? not a bad book