n’s Reviews > Brideshead Revisited > Status Update

btw if you were wondering if this is like, queer… holy shit, man. holy shit. readddddddd it

no cause i am SPEECHLESS. SPEECHLESS, i SAY

completely obsessed and enamoured and all the other vicarious things one can be with a novel. i literally don’t want to read it bc it’s too good and i feel like learning more is spoiling myself in some horrid way i can never regain. like when people ask about a “book you wish you could read again for the first time” but i already know before i finished this that it will be that for me. what style.

charles meeting sebastian and anthony the same day like happy pride month omg…

sebastian is just so perfect it’s rather indecent. he’s like a love interest in a romance novel.

and yet i do also wonder what one could get away with at the time bc the way waugh already describes it makes it clear that sebastian, to charles, WAS… something. “a new epoch” in his life. meeting him like finding a door to that “secret enchanting garden not overlooked by any windows”… language…

the very first chapter is fucking gay btw

i was lead to believe that this is just a little tiny bit gay so if it’s not ill be pissed off just a little