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"she has good news, she says
she has seen him, she has spoken to him
and he has told her
that all their fears were for naught
their understanding of themselves was correct and true
and the shame, the mountains and valleys of shame, were not needed."

i take a brutal hit emotionally whenever i remember that no one else knows about this book. and yeah maybe it was JUST written for me and other odyssey-beowulf-hdmheads who love intricate plotting and reading the same sentences 3 times to get all the hidden meanings BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T READ IT TOO.

well I'm doing my best but now that i'm past the lestrygonians i might truly be lost (things odysseus could also have said but let's not worry about that)

oh they better kiss

no way it's been 4 years since i last read this. give it up for round three...

depressing as hell to be dak hamee

not lost on me that gold ends her exploration of how capitalism circumscribes our imaginations so that literary fiction can't envision actually destroying or getting outside capitalism by saying that even if it could, that fiction would just be coopted by capitalism. which certainly illustrates the point. possibly not in the way she intended.

im obsessed with her

lowk i've though david was extremely understandable if not """justified""" but making rachel think he might be watching her in the shower is beyond the pale let's kill him

unless the author also wants to include pop culture reviews in this book, which is clearly not the point of it, i'm not sure why i need to hear her opinions about the witcher games she hasn't played or whatever. like is it relevant, even if it's a briefly funny aside?

this is such a bad idea they are Stressing Me

when i stop i hear him say it, his voice, go on.

"i am not the feminine voice you may have expected. resentment is not what drives me to write my story." ursula le guin is worth 10 of any other myth retelling writer

5 pages in and im crying. this is not going to end with my survival

ORNAMENTAL HERMIT MENTION

liir might be my favorite actually

look, they were just really careless in this one and it stressed me out.

ok, we've reached the boring half, but on the other hand: camilla sexy

the sudden descent into a roald dahl boarding school....