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Kate Goldbeck writes dialogue like NOBODY else

Should this come first in my syllabus?? Probably no but its my syllabus so

Okay we gotta get this done 2026

“Being an artist felt less like my calling when I struggled. I couldn’t bear to fail at something so important to me” oh so this is actually gonna destroy me, cool!

If I had the capacity to binge read right now it would be over for me this is hittingg

This may actually break my heart oh my god

My brain took this long to connect the dots,,, but god damn

“You know he worked on the Stevenson campaign in 52” the way I put the book down and just went down a rabbit hole learning about the Stevenson 1952 campaign

The lesbian pull Kurt Russell has in The Thing fr

Halloween AND The Thing?? Bro sign me up for that double feature

Girl don’t read the annotations if you haven’t read it before the way I just got spoiled 😭😂

“We were children together,at least for a little while” PUNCHING THE AIR

There’s not a top billed actor in the world who gives a FUCK about pre- production but I am willing to partake in the delusion of it as a pre-pro girlie

“He shouldered out of his Aglionby sweater and proffered it” GOD KILL ME

This book is really entertaining for how boring the movie was 💀

“How appropriate it was that Ronan, left to his own devices, manifested beautiful cars and beautiful birds and tenderhearted brothers, while Adam, when given the power, manifested a filthy string of perverse murders”
This is actually crushing to me on a molecular level tysm

a swing and a miss for my initial predictions but I’m much more interested in this new angle

A ya sapphic novel thats essentially the same plot as my favourite romcom?? Oh yes thank u

“What a curious speech mannerisms they have here. If only they knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions”
THE IMPLICATIONS!!!!! OH THE IMPLICATIONS!!!

I feel like she’s writing around anything of interesting substance

There’s no way this needed to be over 500 pages

Give Laura Bailey a million dollars to record the audiobook as Jester

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man-with human flesh.” BROTHER 💀

How could anyone read this and think Paul’s gonna be the hero and not the villain 💀

Okay actually getting so on board

Couldn’t not read my favs this month