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Rereading this to satisfy the "reread a childhood favorite" prompt in the NPL summer reading challenge.

Miss Bickle coining a word for shipping is so on-brand.

Love an appearance from fictional Karen Brissette.

Wow, I have quickly become unaccustomed to reading things this frothy. Hard transition from Dostoevsky to this.

Starting as audio, but might jumó between audio and print.

At this point, a lot of the tension is coming from the fact that every review of this book says that it's extremely violent, but I'm not over halfway through and nothing that distressing has happened...

All the intertextuality with The Story of the Eye is my shit

The fact that I did my entire undergrad thesis on the social construction of madness and my professor never once made me read Foucault is starting to seem criminal.

"Healing is not finite. I am resurrecting myself without a guidebook."

“How many saving throws did I willingly fail in order to keep her in my life, no matter how much it harmed me?”

"Is this what being queer is like? Do I want this? Who would ever want this?" Ooof, yeah.

Still need to bang out a nonfic book for my June goals, and I heard Lucy Dacus talk about this one on the Gayotic podcast, so here we are!

I feel like I would already be finished with this book if my anxiety would just let me read.

I don’t vibe with the prose style at all, so I swapped to audio to speed through the second half.

I keep imagining everyone as that guy who makes TikToks in a nasal Australian accent.

I am once again reading a TikTok book on a friend’s recommendation.

Dracula Daily let’s gooooo

A bit of side-eye for the bit about the pandemic turning “civil rights into civil privileges.”

Hitting the same spots of my brain as Preacher's Daughter.

Cheese and crackers, has this taken a sharp turn.

I hope that things start to go wrong soon.