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Okay the insane amount of commas per sentence is gonna. Also did you know that the name of a particular type of lake grass and the word for swan in Russian are like practically the same? I do.

Really hate that they released the longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature because it's distracted me from immersing fully in this book but damn, I can see why this is a classic already and we're not even a third of the way in

crazy work of me to not be reading this in the heat of summer but hey, it's gonna be in the 70s this weekend in London and that's close enough, right?

Gotta admit, chronically online boy slop kinda slaps

Okay way to remind me that I no longer live within the comfortable, delusional sphere of academia where I can live blissfully exempt from the realities of adult living...

Yep, this cements it... Saleem Haddad is on the list of auto-buy authors

Okay having now lost my Baldur's Gate 3 virginity I now get the whole ~Lit RPG~ thing and I'm diggin' it

This might be the first audiobook I’ve ever listened to with Australian narrators… I’m diggin’ it

I listened to 5hrs of this audiobook while I waited for my house to get fumigated and honestly, I had a great time

sometimes you just wanna live in a scenic commune and f*ck all your friends, is that too much to ask?!

okay nooowwwww KISS!!!

(iykyk)

I too just wanna tumble around and play fight with my homies in the mud and stare longingly into their eyes, these are very heterosexual thoughts babe.

reading my favorite genre is... good? who knew!!

yeah putting this one on a temporary pause while I attempt to dredge myself up from my post- Curse of the Heart slump.

this book is punting me back into a reading slump like nobody's business but for book club... we persist ✊🏻

try #2 and this time I can't blame my confusion on ao3 psychosis so i might just be dumb

"What else to do in this ungovernable world but master control over his body? The glaciers are melting, but he completed fifty double-unders without breaking form... The Assad regime was starving hundreds of thousands, but if he ate nothing but boiled chicken for three days he could glimpse the outline of his abs under the right lighting..."

palate cleansing with some good ole fashioned creepy body horror short stories

(also seeing Eliza Clark at a panel in a couple weeks so this felt right)