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gasppppppp

these stories are making me feel deranged

DNF’ing at story Hanji & Youngju bcuz I need to return to library

i’m fighting to finish this.

I don’t think I can quote this but a poem in here just ruined me

“Pregnancy Diary” hmmm. Not as strong but so intriguing… grapefruit jams and chromosomes and women becoming wisps of their former selves… and like how it felt fated as young girls. I need to read some thoughts on this one

shoulda been a 150 page novella but i can cope with this. what a weird gem of a short story… i love books like this that remind me of a yearning for something… this author reminds me alot of how Marguerite Duras makes me feel. the final bit can definitely be inspected in different ways, so I like that.

“I gaze at the photograph of my father just as someone might gaze at the altar from the pew.”

apparently dont read this on audio lmao. why would anyone produce an audiobook and not include the translator notes in a metafiction text about a relationship between an out of touch japanese writer and a taiwanese translator. dpmo

no yeah wait

expired reagents, storing blood at the wrong temperature, you cannot make some of this stuff up like just basic fcking medical lab protocol even in the busted labs!

Not months worth of false Protime test results stfu

for a people’s magazine serialized collection the writing manages to be very uncomplicated and sweet.

the first story was perfection

i’m experiencing hysteria

i’m at the start of part 2 and i am so excited to see where this goes. i think the set up of this first half has me soo intrigued as to where this might go. is it going to be esoteric? shocking?? i dunno yet

Not the dialogue with Osama Bin Laden

i’m supposed to think this is funny and it so is not sorry

“when a woman blew smoke at a man it meant she was definitely interested, and when a man told a woman her dress was too revealing it meant he adored her”

I can tell off the first chapter alone this is going to be one of the more difficult Didion books to follow… I need to be all the way in on this

this book is too relatable but seriously this guy just got out of sex with his gi issues?

okay i need this to lead to a horror crescendo moment akin to Rouge or like some wacky violent display of sadism?

the allen setups r so fcking stupid sorry

idk the only takeaway from this book so far is like being a femboy >>>> & omg jonah ur so sexy!!!

why her mom’s black dog gotta be named Sambo like im not playing im genuinely asking

“Do not be sad, he said. You have begun your own journey, not into the world, like your friend’s, but into yourself and your memories. As they fall away, perhaps you will attain that enviable emptiness into which all things flow.”

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