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I'm just not feeling this tbh.

"Where did this start? What is the beginning of something that is not a story? There is only the palce I always return to in my mind" (50).


Yup. Teared up at the end or the beginning or the middle or nowhere. It's a mystery and yet not. Grief is all over the place.

I have not been able to put this book down at all. Finally reached a point where it managed to make me tear up. Happy holidays. Thank all the stars for literature and poetry <3

"I have a crow inside me and no one can know. I can feel it all the time. It is like the entire night sky and all the stars and every beautiful sound you can imagine. It is like being too excited to sleep. It is like being twelve years old and stripping off my clothes outside in the rain. Savage. Girl. Suddenly awake to the deviance available in every ordinary moment" (14). Once more I find myself wading thru a dream

This……… is terrible….. I don’t know why I keep holding out hope for so many of these types of books :/

"Self-Portrait at 28" just shifted something fundamental within me, my god

I had to get over my hesitation in scribbling on my hardcover copy just bc I feel like I don't want to encroach on anything David Berman ever had to say... But my goodness does he make it difficicult not to sing praises in chickenscratch ink on the margins and among lines I have to underline twice and sketch a star next to. It also took me a bit to prepare myself for this read. His absence still weighs heavily for me

Devouring this but I’m feeling conflicted after this newest chapter.. everything was going fine!! But gahhh… this sudden change in pacing?? I’m not sure I’m feeling it and I’m terrified it’s sucked out all the momentum

It’s been a while since I’ve read Emery Rose, but I remember loving Wild Love and how lush and crazy it was. In the years since, I hadn’t kept up with her bc I couldn’t get into Until August, so when I saw this new book I thought “why not!” It’s like she took the time away to hone her skills. This story is beautifully atmospheric that not even the pop culture refs annoy me much—this world is BUZZING

Fini.

I loved this glimpse into the mind of a teenage girl born in 1953. "Instead of leaving for Chile with a bunch of gangsters, one stays in Paris and writes a novel. That seems to me the great adventure." (from The Paris Review Interview with Françoise Sagan in August 1956).

She is fascinatingggg to me!!!

"She gently stroked my hair and neck... My one wish was to give up all my plans and put myself entirely into her hands for the rest of my life" (79).

"She stroked my cheek... Sometimes when I am groping for a match, I find myself thinking of that strange moment when my hands no longer seemed to belong to me, and again I recall the intensity of Anne's look, and the emptiness around me—the vast emptiness" (86).

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This is insufferable.... I am suffering.

I want to read something light this holiday season so I was excited to finallyyyy pick this book up after so long. Five pages in and well... I just hope it gets better quickly lol

The last page.......... The lase SENTENCE.... I should've seen it coming!!! Gahhh that was clever lol

I need to know what crazy shrooms Roger Zelazny was on when he decided to write this book……… because I would like to try some to unleash my imagination this insane way. This is soooooo good!!!!! I’m literally rooting for Jack the dang Ripper and his cursed canine companion to make it out of Halloween unscathed 😭

This book is hilarious omg... Like, I did not expect to love this weird world this much!!! I think i'll try to finish this one tonight in one go simply because I cannot put it down now

"'Creature of the Night,'" he said. "'Living Blasphemy.' You're safe here. You can even have a peach if you'd like." (66)

This book is hilarious actually. I have absolutely no idea how this mystery-spooky-thriller is going to play out but I'm excited! To think "The Great Detective" aka Sherlocke Holmes (I'm guessing here) could be the villain in this monster-centric story kinda has me giggling I can't lie

Finally reached the final act and I'm excited to meet THE Smaug! Gonna force myself to finish this book by tonight.

I’m genuinely amazed at what people are making popular nowadays… even for these type of books, this was embarrassingly awful, my goodness.. Yeah, I’m giving this one up.

Okay.... I did NOT expect this book to be anywhere near as good as this has been so far ??? Am I about to not be burned by a fantasy romance book this year FINALLY ????!!!?!

I meant to read this book like almost two months ago but I’m just cracking it open now and you know what… Talk about timing, because I desperately needed to read this specific book at this particular moment of my life my goodness…

I actually love it when Tolkien gets reverent of nature tbh — it feels like he holds it to the same magical regard as that of the high fantasy aspects he’s imagined

Finally picking up this gem again after months of stalling not just because of my reading rut but because the subject matter was getting heavier to read while I was stressing out with day to day matters too. Sigh. But there’s nothing like the healing powers of a good book so I’m here to finally see this journey through with Roth’s magical prose

Oh my god, this one is immediately insufferable I'm actually in shock lol

I had no clue the sequel was already out?!!??!?! But some of the reviews I scanned prior to reading have me concerned... because now that I'm deep in it, I'm looking at the page count and I'm getting antsy about the story's pacing and finale bc what do you mean I'm already more than halfway finished?? There's no way all of this is going to be wrapped up in a neat bow with the small number of pages left to read....

I really just chose this book to get back into the swing of reading after such a busy last two months for me with work and while it’s awful, it did its job as a springboard to get me back into the mood for reading!

So I’m giving this up now because … yeah… this isn’t proving to be some hidden dark romance treasure—just more rapid pace, nonsensical trope-driven plot and shoehorned edginess.

That makes it three strikes for me in a row finding duds 😪

If you love yourselves, don’t even think about opening this one up, not even out of morbid curiosity.

……Still on my quest to find even a simple gem in the rough, but this ain’t it. Giving it up.