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I am in a Slump

this audiobook is narrated by Greg from Crazy Ex Girlfriend and I can never find him cute and vaguely endearing again

if anyone is interested in that sapphic book group I mentioned, it's here! https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

I'm not QUITE into this yet but I'm enjoying the beginning a lot!

hey, would any of you be interested in a Goodreads group dedicated to reading and discussing sapphic / wlw books? I feel like we need a more coherent community for this <3 <3

this book inspired a post on the flaws in our current discourse around the not-like-other-girls-trope! so that'll be up tomorrow @thebookishactress.wordpress.com if you're looking for it! [it's not negative about this book!!]

“Are you going to give me the fornication without the intention of procreation is of the devil and a crime lecture? I believe I could recite it from memory by now.”
“Monty-”
“Perhaps I am trying to procreate with all these lads and I’m just very misinformed about the whole process. If only Eton hadn’t thrown me out.”
the MOST underrated quote from this book

I don't understand why I like this book I should, on an idealistic level, despise this book

I'm only fifteen pages into his section but Jason is the woooooooooooooooorst

I'm still so in love with this book

this is so Cute

I swear I just ignored a corner of this book

this is fine but for some reason I keep forgetting I’m reading it?

this book is really good but also really dark and I am currently Incapable of reading dark things

Rogue Protocal sweetie I’m so sorry that an ugly ass bitch like me would get into a slump while reading you

this is so boring oh my god

I just hit three five stars in a row 👋

me: this is my favorite classic I've read this year
also me: wow this book is awful it can go fuck itself

this is THE best short story anthology I’ve ever read and I’m not just saying that because I’m A Huge Gay I actually think this is just incredibly high-quality

wow, I just got one full review out after not reviewing for a whole week and also only reading novellas!! go me

I'm a full quarter through the book and Nothing has happened

I’m genuinely obsessed with this it’s as if Martha Wells knows Exactly what I like in literature and plans to use that knowledge, for evil

I don’t remember the last time I’ve had such a visceral reaction to a book. this is just...
So deeply upsetting

well I mean I binged this much in one sitting so I pretty much fucking love this bye

it’s cute!! but also they’re already together and we have 55% left of the fucking book to get through what the Hell

I have been here for a Day but holy shit man I love this book

all I want is for Quentin, Caddy, and Benjy to grow up and get the hell out of that family and run off into the sunset together and yet I have to Suffer instead

I just figured out maybe the biggest reveal of this chapter and I'm so proud of myself

I swear to god why won’t this end

this is terrifying, but not in the way you’d expect. I expected a sort of horror story, but this is playing off the feat of being forgotten and uncared for perfectly. bonus points for me still having no idea what’s going on!