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blogs and email chains and 9/11 references abound. i’m locked in, but keep giggling at how much of a period piece feel it has now that both Julie and Julia are set in time’s past.

finally reading this one after all these years. hardest read i’ve ever tried to get through emotionally.

listening to this in audiobook form has me crying on my commute. all my years using lorde’s work and reading those who came after her, nothing is like reading these essays in context together.

never have i locked in like this in my life

ugh it’s everything i wanted it to be!!!!

to hear this story in such a concise way when my own life mirrored hers so deeply in my youth and early adulthood is draining. i cannot imagine how long it took to write this and how difficult it was for her. especially in the ways this book differs from jinger’s. the naming of cost when so many of us still hold her public pain so closely to our own grief while we navigate a post iblp cannot have been easy.

my obsession just keeps growing w every volume

there’s so much more going on than in the first book good lord

listening to this one as an audio book has me sobbing on my way to work

im addicted to these little books. i cannot think of character i’ve ever loved more dearly 🥺

listening to the audio book of this, i’m so entertained oh my goodness

i’m having so much fun, i should read more fun things 🥲

i can’t believe how good every single one of her stories are

struggling to stick w this but i’m determined bc a friend recommended

lawd help me, i gotta finish this by book club (saturday)