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I'm more active elsewhere nowdays, but I miss Goodreads. I have still been passively producing "content" for them without sending it to my feed - which admittedly nullifies any principled stand behind the inactivity - but I miss the social aspect of book social media. It's been 7 years since I interacted much with people here, and a lot of them have since moved or passed on. Is there still community here?

Not gelling with this series and I can't even properly explain why.

On the Appenzell: If you look at the small white-framed windows and the busy, fiery flowers on the sills, you get this sense of tropical stagnation, a thwarted luxuriance, you have the feeling that inside something serenely gloomy and a little sick is going on. It’s an Arcadia of sickness. Inside, it seems, in the brightness in there, is the peace and perfection of death, a rejoicing of whitewash and flowers.

what an awful way to treat someone.

Instalove makes everything dulllll

I don't think this is getting stars for stellar representation of psychotic illness.

So far, pretty incredible

I must say audiobook may not be the ideal format for this one.

I last read this in January and had already forgotten how unsettling it is. I'm feeling tense on a re-read.