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Agustina Bazterrica is such a good writer holy shit. I'm shook

One minute! she sang, scrubbing furiously at her scalp. Take care of your child, she wanted to scream. Just take care of it! What was so hard about it? Give him something, anything. Make a silly face. Put on a goddamn cartoon.

She could not comprehend her husband’s great expertise with complex machinery yet complete inability to troubleshoot their child.

"No one could have predicted such an arrival, for years up until that point she had been the very picture of a mother, self-sacrificing and domestic, un-gripey, un-grumpy, refreshed even after unrefreshing nights of nonsleep, nursing the baby and rocking the baby and shushing the baby while her kind husband snored and slept or, actually, most of the time, was not even there."

ok I just love the prose in this

“Manifestos are for crazy people, you explained slowly. Manifestos are incoherent, scrawled hastily before pointless acts of terror. Your Theory is more an exploration of the most inherent human truth. No one is all bad. No one is all good. We live as equals in the murky gray between.”

It's early but I'm calling it. This IS the worst book I've read this year

just started this but I really hope the dialogue gets better

mart is very punchable rn

yessss 😇

I'm enjoying this very much so far as a literary character piece without any murders but I KNOW somebody's going to bite it soon so I'm hoping very hard that it's Rushborough

oh man I LOVE the character work in this book

“I know what Mart wanted, anyway,” Cal says, “and it’s got nothing to do with you.”

🤔 🤔 🤔

“What, you don’t like sheep?”
Donie shrugs.
“Seems to me you got some kinda grudge against them,” Cal says. “One of ’em turn you down?”

and now we take a detour from our juicy mystery so that a whole pub full of Irish guys can play matchmaker!!!

ngl pretty fun

oh my GOD

and to think I read 30+ books in the time it took me to finish As Meat Loves Salt...

Yet had he said to me, Beg, I would have thrown myself on the ground, and I walked away from the tent straining my ears lest he should call me back.

I like Lena a lot

well this was trippy

it got spooky :)

Ward has been hit or miss for me so far (loved Sundial, meh on Needless Street) but this one has grabbed me fr

me when I get to the sexual assault part of a book about a sexual assault investigation: wow this is making me so angry who would've thought

the writing is gorgeous tho

the prose is really nice in a very frothy breezy british way

I wasn't expecting to love this as much as I am. I'm having funnnn