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every time we meet a new character it's like, "Vittorio Pironetti wore short pants and had a big forehead and was really depressing to be around," and then you click the footnote and it says, "Vittorio Pironetti was the greatest Italian literary critic of his time, a lifelong Marxist, and slayed 45 fascists single-handedly, after which he was exiled."

me when contemporary romance novelists include playlists at the beginning of their books: 😐😐😐😐🤨😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

me when arab poets do it: 😍😍😍😍♥️♥️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️☺️☺️🥰🥰🥰😘😘

one thing about latin americans…..they’re gonna get self-referential

genuinely laughing out loud

genuinely laughing out loud

iris murdoch is so good at writing men who are really fucking annoying

this is already excellent

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