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“How’s the book?” the app says. Long. The book is long.

The subject matter is giving me an anxiety-induced stomach ache.

I’m trying this.

A confession: I’ve had some issues differentiating the characters. A lot of them have the same names. Eg. there are four Jose Arcadios. Fortunately not all of them take up the same space in the plot.

It had me right up until the incident with the Vice reporter, including the reporter's article saying "The emotional damage done to me was considerable." I'll take Things That Would Never Happen for $200, Alex.

I relate to this girl an uncomfortable amount. It has me thinking about the concept of fandom being a buffer between ourselves and the rest of the world - a prism through which to feel things. And how writing fiction can be the same thing. I think I've always had some variation of this.

I'm trying to read all the Christmas category romances I've accumulated over the years. The premise of this one makes no sense.

He keeps bothering her while she’s trying to take a bath. He makes helpful and invasive observations like “you’re not wearing a bra” and pulls her arms away when she feels self conscious and tries to cover her chest. She’s still trying to leave this house with something like four men in it and he won’t let her. Another one for the Creepy Man romance genre.

So far, she drove into his lake and he’s holding her hostage.

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So far, it makes me thirsty.

So it really seems like this guy is going to have sex with his sister.

My favourite line was the last sentence: "And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder."

My favourite line, from page 277: "Her entire body felt crippled with horror, clenched like a dead spider."