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Aine
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i’m enjoying this moderately ! thought it would be a new fav, and i might like it more later on, but idk something’s not clocking. i like selin but i have very little connection to her? which of course could be rhetorical and to do with her depersonalisation, but i just feel there’s something missing. i do love an epistolary novel though
— Sep 10, 2025 05:52AM
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Aine
is on page 224 of 423
1. ivan fucking sucks
2. this is so funny and clever at times and then at other times it feels like batuman is just describing a sequence of events in a ‘quirky’ way eg “ivan handed me two knives and two forks. i looked at the two knives and forks in my hands” LIKE i get what batuman is going for but it can be SO fatiguing
3. selin you like girls
— Sep 12, 2025 07:37AM
2. this is so funny and clever at times and then at other times it feels like batuman is just describing a sequence of events in a ‘quirky’ way eg “ivan handed me two knives and two forks. i looked at the two knives and forks in my hands” LIKE i get what batuman is going for but it can be SO fatiguing
3. selin you like girls
