Status Updates From A Theory of Dreaming (A Stu...

Ugh this is so GOOD.

Hit the biggest reading slump ever and haven’t picked it up in a week. Ready to get back into it this week 😅

genuinely just thought of the funniest thing and I could only tell Kenna bc she’s the only one who’s read this

This is gorgeous. I love it so much. But also requires too much brain power of me right now. As do all my other ARCs for some reason. 🫠

determined to start and finish this since An Archive of Romance was announced

This book sounds like would’ve could’ve should’ve by taylor swift

I relate to effys hatred of literary formalism and it's so fucking funny

Catch me crying in the club

I highly recommend rereading A Study in Drowning before diving into this.

god damn Ava Reid can string a sentence together, but I still feel like the time period being evoked plays a bit too fast and loose for me. it gives aesthetically late 1950s/early 1960s but feels just like that - aesthetics

whatever, it's a fantasy novel, I don't need everything to be a 1:1 real-world analog. just remembered that this bothered me in the first book too so I'm documenting it here

We love a dual POV✨

I cannot believe I'm holding this

Reid’s writing caresses my brain juuuust right 😍

“I’ll wake up. I promise”
Ugh. Just stab me in directly in the heart. It would hurt less. 💔

I am already screaming. Effy, my love, you’re a hero.

I think I love this one more than the first book.

“‘Sweetheart’” BOOMSHAKALAKA

got the arc!!!

FINALLY able to read again really hoping to finish this over the weekend 🤞

*adds “will punch someone in the face for you” to things I look for in a boyfriend*

This is going to break me, isn’t it?

i cant wait for this book to end :’)

Oh Effy… How I do understand you. How I do also plunge my own nails into my flesh to keep reality clear when fantasy threatens to steal me away. I wish it were different for us…

"my mind is never empty of you. not in waking; not even in dreaming"

ahaha what if I just die
the!! effy!! statue!!

everyone who loves piranesi will automatically love this omg! the setting reminds me of that book

I love Effy and Preston but some of the history in the book is like trying to read a book that was written in Pig Latin and then run over repeatedly by a tractor trailer and left out in the rain for 8 days.

let lotto say cunt 2025

Damn things got dark. 🥺
Check triggers before reading this pls ❤️‍🩹

I love a good ball scene 👏🏼

“I would love you even if it was killing me slowly. Even if it ruined me.” 🫠