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Walked in expecting a romance only to be hit with an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Miss Austen you have bested me

Being one of the critics Kuang has so strenuously decried as just a jealous hoe in Yellow Face here: for a book based on the necessity of accurate translation, she sure does make a bunch of bad ones lol

contemplated the idea of a gay dragon for a hot minute

Giovanni you are so dear to me...you come to me as a childhood friend I once picked apples with in papa's orchard...

Giovanni you are so dear to me...you come to me as a childhood friend I once picked apples with in papa's orchard...

ngl I only knew James Baldwin's work about racism in the US so a few pages in I was like why is everyone gay and French?

Robert Harris, in preparation for his big reveal at the end of the book: Benitez you twink ass bitch

I'm only 1 chapter in but already I would not have conversations nor be friends with any of these people

why is percy so wilfully stupid in this book. like he sees a design exhibit with clothes made of recycled trash and is like I don't get it. WHAT IS THERE NOT TO GET. IT'S AN ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT. MY MAN PERCY IS NOT DUMB FREE HIM!!!

if I had a dollar for every time someone (nina) wanted waffles in this book I could buy myself a wafflehouse

if I had a dollar for every time someone wanted waffles in this book I could buy myself a whole wafflehouse

I expected lots of things for this book but not Anne Rice forcing me to read her husband's shitty poetry before every chapter

the name "daizell charnage" is killing me

I love me a good janky man but I draw the line at hygiene...being sexily janky is an art form Emily!

god this must be the hardest jane austen read I've ever done this was written by an 18 year old and it really shows

Catherine and Heathcliff are both so horrible that they absolutely belong together

Only a few pages in and Basil is dropping intense gay bars about Dorian that I could never imagine saying to anyone romantically

I was like damn what should I read next and this book landed on my doorstep courtesy of Serene (❤️). Thanks for the hardcover family trauma PTSD communist homosexuality bestie

Before I begin, I also want to defend A Restless Truth from the reviews I'm currently seeing of A Power Unbound being vastly better. The girlies were fun!!!

I go back and forth on whether I actually want to read this book but the fact that none of the reviews seem to know this is remixed enjolras x grantaire Les miserables fanfiction is hilarious

writing this book is an insane response to losing your daughter btw

they are email-flirting abt big foot erotica n she still wants to act like she doesn't like him

cat sebastian has gone to every trouble possible to describe percy as a desperate twink. "unappealing gangliness". a whole 3 pages of his mother telling him to take up fencing cos he looks like a strong wind could knock him over. unnecessary stretching in front of Webb while looking for a book. Mr Percy is living his best twink life trying to seduce a hot hunk to hold him down and I respect it.

madeline miller said fuck jason

getting exiled to a desert island after your "she wears short skirts I wear t-shirts" moment fighting a girl for a garbage man? couldn't be me

this collection of poetry is, as they say, depresso espresso. heartwrenchingly sad, kind of frantic in the sense of someone desperately wanting to be better (sorry queen). amidst all her loaded words and imagery, I liked this suddenly straightforward line in "Elm": "I am terrified by this dark thing/That sleeps in me;/All day I feel its soft feathery turnings, its malignity".