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Told myself to find a lighthearted contemporary romcom I like and then started a book that’s the complete opposite #oops #thatsjustlikeme

Girl…

This is so stupid

So the last couple of hours of this are just gonna be “I’m obsessed with him/her, but there’s no way he/she wants to be with me, so I just need to get over not being with him/her.” Over and over. Which has been persistent throughout the book but at least before they broke up there were other things happening. Now it’s only unjustified and annoying wallowing.

Michael explaining what his dad did, this dialogue almost exactly being: “my dad was bad to women and I look like him and I’m the same height as him so I’m bad to women, too, for money.” And this third act breakup… oh brother this guy stinks. This is what y’all are going up for?

Also this “idk if he/she wants to be in a real relationship” thing is very tired when it’s obvious they already ARE in a real relationship with each other. Or “she’s not gonna like me once she finds out about what my dad did…” What does that have to do with you??? And she’s clearly obsessed with you, there’s not much that could change that.

This couple’s supposed romantic chemistry, I don’t believe you, you need more people! I have seen the heights of the casual relationship that is devastatingly intense from the beginning that becomes a committed relationship in contemporary romance (hollanov baby!!) and this ain’t it. And probably too straight for me ❌

Put this audiobook on to have something in the background and this seemed frivolous enough. I will probably continue avoiding romance novels after this. I was sure I would dnf, but I’m so close to the end I might as well finish it.

got more book recommendations from the intro and afterword heehee 🤭 and inspired to be more committed to words

finished! now to read the afterword and introduction

said passage details oreo‘s process as an “inveterate crotch-watcher.” glad to see that catching print is eternal.

there is no way i could have foreseen what just happened…

And if I said a passage in this book (pg. 104) reminds me of Matthew Barney’s CREMASTER CYCLE, wild but true

🤔

the playfulness fran ross has for language is so refreshing (also tedious at times but whatever). a reminder that words aren't just there to move from one plot point to another. it's like when i first watched IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and thought, wow we really do not appreciate color photography enough because look at how wong kar-wai so clearly pays attention to it in this movie.

i finished! but maybe i shouldn’t have after dnf-ing multiple times because while this is an impressive novel i didn’t enjoy reading it that much.

finding out how oly had a child, this is insane, how did katherine dunn even think of all this

so many people are like, arty you shouldn’t do that, as they help him do exactly that?? especially oly, especially this situation with elly. kill him!

now arty bringing chick into this… omfg this man gotta die!!! quickly!!!!

{elly and iphy} and {arty and the bag man}, arty is… smh. when is your body ever really your own?

ok i got to page 277 before returning to the library and now i’m listening to the audiobook, which honestly is adding a liveliness that serves the book. because this is a book about yappers, so it really works to actually hear them yap.

ok i MIGHT finally be locked in, but it's due back to the library tomorrow so.

Oh brother…

Ok going back to my PARADISE LOGIC comment I made earlier in the book, I prefer it to this without a doubt

I was concerned this was gonna turn into a Covid book when Mika out of nowhere mentioned a virus spreading, which was quickly revealed to be contagious fatal diarrhea for some reason? I think I would prefer a Covid book. Though this has basically turned into one, just with the runs instead. Because now I’m listening to Mika talk about masking, social distancing, and lockdown :/

I’m sorry, there is now a fatal diarrhea disease pandemic in this book? ??? ??

IJBOL at Mika in response to Tyler telling her he wants to be casual—“I tune him out for the most part because the emission of oxytocin during copulation is scientifically proven, and I can fuck him into loving me.” Ok maybe I will actually listen to this whole book.

“My phone buzzes again, and I know without looking that it is Ty. And a warmth seeps through me, like pissing in the shower, a liquid blanket. Except it’s love, not piss. I am in love.”
Right, right, no… right, yeah. Whether good or bad, I am the person who will keep reading this because where tf else am I gonna read something like that.

Listening to the audiobook (to avoid reading GEEK LOVE which I started AGAIN) and I was not expecting this to be so explicit. It reminds one of PARADISE LOGIC; I liked how weird the protagonist’s voice was there but I wanted it to be more concerned with pleasure? Actually horny and not pretending to be horny in a way she thinks men will like? This is exactly that omfg. Not sure if I’ll finish it, but we’ll see!

the ending, i was worried about a character when i didn’t need to, ty kiley reid