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me rereading this immediately after wise children, googling, "did angela carter have a ginger uncle who she-"

reading this i am suddenly aware of what reasonable adults have felt like talking to me for my entire life. self recognition through the other (concerned)

everyone on my course has been complaining abt this book but it’s kind of a banger yknow. perfume if granola used his feminine wiles to get his own way

everyone on my course was complaining abt this but it’s kind of a banger yknow. perfume if granola was a girlboss

reading this is such a different experience to watching it bc of the stage directions and the stuff the production changed and the fact that i watched it all in one sitting vs reading it in a few etc but it still goes SO hard i am going absolutely feral

screaming crying throwing up etc

alexander is litcherally a queercoded villain

bewildered as to the sexual orientations of these characters. i was expecting some powerful homoeroticism between james and oliver and now it’s looking like the only queer character is alexander (which was dropped in out of nowhere? i swear he’s been sexualising meredith the entire book so far) ????

i’m really surprised this wasn’t written by a man, the sexualisation of the female characters is doing my head in

frederick is right this is pretty damn homoerotic

i can’t stop fucking laughing at richard’s accent he sounds like a budget brian blessed

i liked maud’s pov at first but like by this point i already know everything that happens here let’s jump back to where we left off yknow?

so let me get this straight. in this version faust doesn’t summon mephistopheles, he takes home a stray dog that surprise! transforms into mephistopheles?? have i missed something??????

previous owner also made the annotations of “sue has realised her feelings!” twice, once after “it’s like you love her” and again after they kissed. need 2 meet this person so bad

currently watching the sky tv adaptation w my parents and they keep saying like “the book is so much better! melissa read the book!” anyway the book seems to have a lot of one star reviews so. we shall see.

the painting by georgiana houghton!! it looks like it’s from the 1960s but it’s, like, a century older!! obsessed

i got this secondhand and the person who owned it before me has only made one annotation in the entire book that i can find flicking through, to clarify that “nancy” is old timey slang for gay

this is harrowing but i can’t stop reading

there is a Lot of filler in this

oh to disappear with a mysterious Perfume and a most melodious Twang

obsessed w the three living and the three dead and the “take hede unto my fygure here abowne” poem

want to keep reading this rather than revising for my a levels, which i think is what alice oseman aimed to achieve with this book

love how i can just tell oseman went to a grammar school. there’s a certain brand of academic insanity that can only be fully understood by those who were told they were inherently smarter than everyone else at age eleven

listen i love old ghost stories but i think the main problem with them is that we know too much these days - the idea of blaming ghostly visions on GREEN TEA in 2022 is SO funny

the audiobook narrator is so mumbly i can’t make out like half the words they’re saying

this is the appropriate way to recover after reading a harrowing book

like a mirage, i keep thinking i’m near the end of this godforsaken book yet the end jumps further out of sight the more i read

this book is objectively good but for my brain it is bad

currently love the writing + the weird psychiatrist (ally mcbeal shaped my early teens) + also the cover (❤️ the current trend of book covers w oil paintings)

petition to rename crispin hershey’s lonely planet to david mitchell’s midlife crisis