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On my backlog of dear hank and john episodes (I am on 125, I have heard 100-124 + 150-present sans guest episodes) I got to the point where this book came out, and it was on libby with no wait so I peeked in. its good enough that I'll finish it

short. easy to read. Much like flat earth but the pretention is even more overt, mostly because it is more direct about what the political landscape was in 2017-18. Sad and thoughtful, especially around the halfway mark. circles of creatives have this specific vibe on display here, but I cannot decide if it is a good or bad one. Lowkey a book about being friends with an ex. awesome poet recs throughout.

the sick satisfaction I get reading anything but credence

almost done with the audiobook but the new by storm album took precedent

thats a guess for my page because cloud epub reader on google drive doesn't tell me

ok i think i fixed it thinking I already finished the book. So damn good. Reads so well. Its nice to read the postmodern greats, the pynchons and calvinos and joyces of the world, but sometimes a book like this that has something to say about purpose and desire that jumps at you rather than doing flips to find the meaning is just what one needs.

the beginning is a little awkward and on the nose (i shop because im sad!) but around chapter fifteen it gets really good. she's good at writing about desire in a nuanced way.

a book almost inspiring and relatable in its quest to portray an artist who is too distracted to create, but then you remember that since you're reading the book, the writing eventually was completed.

laughed out loud at the front desk at the part where it adjusts to large print. I keep thinking about how people came to her for twenty years saying "this is unpublishable nonsense" and she just decided to add more email conversations. hilarious.

quietly postmodern, but maybe just in the way that everything is postmodern. At least, when you accept that you have an iphone in your novel. poorly rated on goodreads but maybe that's because this is my bread and butter: sometimes aimless sometimes beautiful sections of prose about being in your twenties and not making art. I like how she talks about class, but mostly how nobody around her gets it. Her friend is

luckily the library let me check this out before they realized there is a single cd copy of The Beach Boy's essential 1971 album Surf's Up missing from the CD case. (actually they did find out but they still let me check this out). References if on a winters night a traveler every three pages

THANK YOU RYLAN!!

gave up on this for a week before realizing I can speed read it because it is hardly worth the time. probably going to put it down for another week though bc it is truly insufferable.

rylan let me borrow his copy of this the fall that we moved in together and I have not gotten the idea to start it until now. oh what a mistake!

vile wretched book, hard to read this and not self insert the author, there's a constant low hum that she wishes all of this happened to her.

Brandy gave me this book for my birthday this year. She wanted to get me The Song of Achilles but they did not have it, so she settled for this thing that she knew I would hate. its not terrible so far. I do not know anything about the plot. went in dead blind. We are finishing it within fifteen days.

jude is lacking