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this is the kind of writing that gives me absolute pleasure but doesn’t blow me away. and i fuck with that

reading with Dom!

Already I am obsessed

Hit after hit after hit god damn it

The way the form and content mimic the improvisational quality of jazz music is a truly beautiful experience

I have literally no words, this is one of the best books I’ve ever read

“May you be blessed, where you’re going, for all of eternity.
May you be blessed, may you live in paradise full of trees and fresh earth, greenery, and lots of dogs.”

“May you be cursed where you’re going, too, for all of eternity.
May you be cursed and condemned to live in a hell without boys.”

I will say the story is taking a turn where Lenu has somehow developed a sort of omniscience that is not clear, and I’m interested to see if that is a result of her finding things out later from received info or she’s just switched into omniscience OR she just is imagining. Throwing me off a tad

How is no one talking about this….

sweet sweet torture

Lenù keeps getting blindsided when will she be able to rest

trying this again ❤️

RELEASE ME

“Like the faithful wife who uses her friendship with the king to solicit favors for her husband, Concetta invoked celestial grace not for herself but for [her son]. The impiety of her son made her shudder and she tried to make up for it with her own devotion” Whewie

Mouth agape at some of these genius, vicious monologues. This is fierce

Hard to find the love that was in the beginning in the darker parts of the narrative that are constant now… the love is what intrigued me… sticking it out though because apparently family epics are my shit?

Finally she is dead

🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀

I am EATING this up. It doesn’t have a conventional plot structure but that’s okay because the characters are rich and there is a mythical air to everything that is soooo so intriguing

already one of the better books I’ve read this year. Just feels like a hearty glass of red

“For a lover knows two times, that which he is given and that which he must take”