Status Updates From Possession

over 300 pages without a single moment of anticipation, fascination, or discomfort, even. but you can, obviously, recognise Byatt’s erudition and craft clearly while feeling nothing

I think this will be a favorite…

“I wanted to be a poet, and a poem. But now I am neither, but the mistress of a very small household …. It may that this is the desire of all reading women, but not reading men …. There, now I’m crying.” The plight of the manic pixie dream girl.