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the food writing in this is making me hungry as hell (which is crazy bc all the food is so distinctly british)

it genuinely gets to a point……

125 pages of pure delusion

it makes so much sense that this was written by a bisexual woman

this is like an anthropological study of british people, which is delightfully funny

are all of iris murdoch's men twinky/submissive/breedable?

ngl alice is losing me a bit

sex before marriage in an alice coldbreath book? YAAASSSSSSS 😝😈😍

wait okay i'm starting to like the couple.........

lenú may be the first case of ethical cheating………..

initial concept feels a bit cartoonish, but i am willing to be surprised by my historical romance staple……

feeling #scared and #nervous about the nino fallout i know is coming...

and if i devour this in like two days……

elena is probably the most annoying she's ever been in this series ofmgmsdfg

elena ferrante might be one of the only writers to ever do it who can pull off a passive narrator i'm ngl...

the amount of high cortisol couples in my villa rn……

i believe i've reached the ragebait section of this book

nino’s romantic interest in lenù beginning and ending with her totally delusional glorification of him and his writing……😭😭 oh baby we have to get you out of there

2 year difference between book 1 and 2 but the writing in this one seems so much stronger + more vivid ???? i’m not making it out of this alive

seeing the character index at the beginning of this book basically double in size....oh, we're really in it now.

"your heart is agitated, your veins inflamed" and it's just ELENA SEEING LILA NAKED FOR THE FIRST TIME?!@#>?!@#?12 gay ass friendship my god

donato sarratore, KYS.

if i know anything about foreshadowing, about 2 books down the line, nino and lila are gonna betray lenù, solidifying the cyclical nature of father-son trauma.............

this romance subplot that i know heather fawcett is probably gonna drag out for 2-3 more books is actually working on me...

lila pulling a knife on a boy and hitting a "don't touch her," for lenù ..... OH, WE'RE HITTING ITALIAN YURI TERRITORY NOW.

the amount of italian names in this 😫