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Poe - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ⭐⭐⭐ Going to use this concept as worldbuilding material for sure.

Poe - The Black Cat ⭐ HATE IT

de Balzac - La Grande Bretêche ⭐⭐ Not scary, not overly interesting.

Going to read a story or two each evening in October. There are 52 in here so I'm gonna shoot for 2 if I can, 1 if it's larger, 3 if they're very short. I'd like to wrap it up in some vicinity to Halloween.

still slogging away.

"Anyway, Sigurd had ants in his pants and important things to do. I couldn't ask him to sit through a two-hour program in German." GIRL. There are not words for how IRRITATING Livia, the protagonist, is in this book. This has been a painful 30%.

things the protagonist and i have in common: are women, cared more about music than boys in school, went to an indiana school on a music scholarship, knew someone who had their foot run over with a lawn mower as a child—

she's spilling her guts to a man she just met. what could possibly go wrong

I need the author to delete that whole sentence about the poked slug. Thank you.

Forgot I wanted to read this as part of Sad Boy Summer but also because of its Booker longlisting, so squeaking this one in super quick.

holy shit this woman's at IU, unexpected

I was really hoping she'd do one particular D&D trope and she did 🫡

as someone currently playing a rogue with the skulker feat, HARD DISAGREE

what the fuck lmao

this is so batshit lmao