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Screaming at Fred more or less asking Mary if she wants him to kill himself because she thinks he’s a bum.

I’ve been listening to this on and off enough that it’s worth using towards the Reading Challenge that I am very behind on, lol, but I will note that I truly believe it’s the audiobook narrator who elevates what would otherwise be a slow and boring reading experience. She does a great job at capturing the nostalgia, the whimsy, the sadness, the longing. Excited to see this adapted in the show.

You read a classic and suddenly remember first person is indeed a worthwhile point-of-view only devalued and bastardized by the vapidity of the 21st century contemporary novel.

The Jeffrey-Batty propaganda has finally begun..

The plot has barely even begun and I’m already at 15%. This is a very bad omen.

Do I have the strength to go on? Can I survive these last two hours without crying my eyes out over the internal suffering of a lonely eleven-year-old?

Okay, officially cried. This one is so painful.

Jolie will conjure up wild sex fantasies about Gabriel leaping over her apartment balcony to have his way with her, and Gabriel will be like, “You think I’m sooo sexy,” and then Jolie will be like, “No, I do not. I am a professional and these legs are closed for business.” And while Gabriel stares at her in anguish, her internal monologue will be like: I want him to fuck the living daylights out of me.