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

This book isn’t grabbing me as much as the first. I’m hoping the second half will more.

she writes folklore for these books so well

It was going so well and then you chose a different direction with the plot and rush the ending

I’m taking this as a Taylor Swift reference

Mmmm and it was all a conspiracy

i forgot how insufferable effy is….but the vibes r so good

So I'm not enjoying this so far 😔

i’ve been crying off and on for the last 50 or so pages and i don’t know how we’re going to wrap this up in a satisfying way with so little of the book to go 🥺

also this book really should have had trigger warnings…

Trying to finish tomorrow.

lets get some dark academia vibes going for fall am i right??

What do you mean the Midwinter college ball themes are Folklore and Midnight? Thought we wouldn’t notice but we did! Ava Reid’s a Swiftie

Not loving this, feels like a lot is being left out. May skip ahead…

“You love her.”
“Yes. More than anything.”
“I can see that.”
“But I’m so afraid. Every time I leave her - even sometimes when I’m staring right at her - I’m so afraid that I’ll lose her.”
“That may be what it means, to love.”
“And how are we meant to bear it?”
“Tell me about her.”
“She’s brilliant.” 😍🥰❤️ Preston is so far gone for Effy!

“After all your fretting over my clumsiness.”

“It might surprise you to learn that a pack of cigarettes is not of equal value to me. Let’s go. You must be freezing.”

I happen to really like new protective Preston! 🥰

genuinely terrified of where this is going

“Whatever faults I might have - and I have plenty - just know that I think of you, always. My mind is never empty of you. Not in waking; not even in dreaming.” 😭

I don’t know how to feel about this book a lot of small things have been happening up until now.
I like the book but I just feel like the plot is non existent other than the fact that both main characters have trauma

It’s too real

“They were not safe. Perhaps they never would be. But the walls had crumbled and they were free.”

i could RAGE at some of the men this is book

preston loves this girl so much i'm gonna sob

I really hope they get their happy ending

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Let Lotto say “cunt”

⤿ did not expect this to get so political & reflective but i'm enjoying it !!

There is only so much any mind can endure before it must reject reality. Before it must reject wisdom and reason. I have always found my fragments of freedom in fantasy. It has served me better than any shield or sword, and certainly better than any of the laws of men. I have lived and died by quill and ink. And how could I ever begrudge myself this? Even moths and cormorants are thought by the naturalists to dream.

But the versions where you lose her are the oldest stories in the world. The ones where you fall, where you drown, where you let go
of her hand. Where you kiss her but she remains as cold and still as stone. There are no horses or carriages or ships to bear you away.
There is no hatch in the floor.

Free me. How much longer must I endure this posthumous existence?

In moments of solitude I can turn back time and imagine myself as young again: my bare feet in the grass, a crown of white flowers and juniper berries in my hair. (…) I take refuge in these dreams. I dive eagerly into unreal waters. But when I return, dragged unwillingly to the shore like a mermaid in a net, I am bereft again. Womanhood has left me with no place to hide.

“Nothing is ever lost, only changed, and grief is no more than the knowledge that a wilted flower cannot be made again to bloom. Time even warps the panes of hothouse-glass, till they may be shattered with a wanting breath.”