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Will this never end? I'm starting to feel utterly repulsed

I'm thinking this is not a book you enjoy so much as survive

My god, actual plot events!

I'm starting to wonder if this book doesn't even need me to read it. Why else would everything be spelled out to the point it requires no thought whatsoever?

I'm learning so much about the world of MtG but when will something actually happen?

😬 🫣 😨 maybe I should reconsider subjecting my book club to this

This man's life was fucked up even BEFORE he was born, my god

200 pages in four days is a good sign, right

The climactic event is basically the last 100 pages, are you fucking kidding me

For a book about running, this is damn slow

Today at work an old lady mentioned she was reading this and when I tossed out my Woody Allen theory she did NOT like it

The Ballad of Timothy Touchett -

If Woody Allen wrote short fiction instead of screenplays, they might exude an old-fashioned, breezy smugness like this does

The Line -
never read Towles before, but I've heard enough to know this first story seems fairly on brand. What I didn't expect was how satirical his take on Communist Russia would be. He's a sharp, witty writer, but also a very literary one. Mostly good signs?

Why do you keep teasing me with this cult stuff and then pulling back? You're worse than Gus

How dare you drag romcom-era Meg Ryan into this Emily Henry

"It's the antithesis of the oversimplified and inaccurate stereotype of the genre. It does *exactly* what I aim to: it makes its readers feel known and understood, like their stories - *women's stories* - matter."

I'm barely 20% in and this thing has already gone fully self-aware

Oh god, a writer protagonist. Is Emily Henry gonna be the chick lit equivalent of Stephen King?

I gotta think about this one a bit

Last night on the bus this old woman, who claimed to have short-term memory loss, kept asking me what I studied in school "when you were young and handsome."

I get it now, Santángel. Being old fucking sucks