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OH NOO BAILEY!!! the circus left!!! oh no!!!


i'm unbelievably slow, i know. i think this book is just short of perfrct enough to make me want to let it sit for a bit before finishing it. idk. ANYWAY. ONWARDS

idk but chapter 8, audiobook

this sounds like a collection of sentences too profound for the material, even though one would think it fitting for subject matter. if you know what i mean. i think i'll give it until end of part 1 at most, but it's a bit boring

no way im finishing this pls goodbye

why is anastasia mad at nate (it's a forced enemies-to-lovers trope). ryan is gonna get jealous inevitably (they're hooking up but he's really sweet to her). why am i eevn reading this (i'm in south india at a resort and i found this book in the kids playroom for some ungodly reason)

also im still supremely mad at how she kept calling he coach variations of russian/commie just bc shes a skating coach. get a grip

oh my god i don't think i took a single breath from page 1 until now. erin morgenstern you will never escape the magician allegations

the rumors are true. she is finally reading the night circus

and also: the crime of influence is ripe in this one. dorian gray, the secret history, demons. delicious!

incredible tale of vanity, hollow, bored anxiety, delusions of grandeur. so human and true. of those who live on earth i doubt many have not ever indulged in gossip, wishful thinking, limerence. it's the natural state, a result of curiosity, amplified in the case of 19th century aristocracy by boredom in the blood and air, stirred by metal taste of unease in government. incredible. comedic in tragic shakespearean way

incredibly fucking cryptic + an almost omniscient narrator who is however somewhat limited in his knowlegde of events just adds to the confusion. amazing no notes

remembering how i read half of this book about six years ago and then like, realized that i had no clue what was happening at all, i was waiting for things to fall into place and start making sense but they never did.

not the case this time around, thankfully. i, uh, am actually paying attention to what i'm reading. though it it fairly cryptic and thus complicated, that much is true

just felt like you should know that between my seven-year-old aftg obsession reigniting and me seeing monkey man with bloodied dev patel two days ago i have started to research and write a (jujutsu kaisen) au fic about yakuza. just thought you guys would appreciate this information

ugh i know he is still with us at this point but flashback gojo is so dear to me. my beloved. i miss u

"sorry it's my fault" SHUT UP SUGURU GETO YOU NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG IN YOUR LIFE EVER not at this point anyway MY GOD!!!!!!!!!

like of COURSE chapter 69 is the one where teenage girls are drooling over gojo in a church. like what else could it be

also huge fan of how gojo's just there for the vibes and geto is the one actually in the loop. you could also make this a deeply unsettling angsty thing about how gojo is treated and feels like a weapon wielded but never given agency but this ain't abt him. this is abt geto the eldest sister of jjk

oh no... starting hidden inventory. oh no. guys. ohhhh no

что-то действительно как будто скучнее стало, но "растворение создает концентрацию" очень понравилось

being "just plain annoying" might be satoru gojo's gravest offence consistently especially since there's no codependent bestfriend around to soften the devastating blow of tomfoolery and attention deficit disorder shenanigans

omg so miwa DID get her selfie with gojo god bless. this is the type of closure im reading the manga for btw

i want to Take itadoru yuji in the Palm of my Hand and Squeeze him Gently and Lovingly in lieu of a Hug that he is in Need of very Desperately. i Know exactly what worse Things are Coming and i want to Gently Squeeze him with Love

finally reading this after watching the anime twice in a row (don't stare?) and just thinking about how endearing it is that yuji was in the occult club. like he was a jock and a fuckin nerd and the king of adhd chaos freak activities ages before the king of curses showed up. bro no WONDER yuji beat his ass

so this all happened very fast, and i picture everything very vividly, and this is good writing, and i laughed. i laughed at this. i like this book very much

so much is gonna go down in like 100 pages that i have left jesus christ i just know it

"I thought he was twenty-four," I whispered to Camilla.
"No," she said, "that's his old football number."

currently met with the conscequences of not knowing the layout of a lisbon train station prior to arrival specifically it being quite open-space and unheated at 7:32 on a january morning with two and a half hours to spare before my train. not quite the richard pipen style of living in vermont january weather with hole in the roof but reminiscent, definitely, and aesthetically inspired, if you will

i simply crave a life wherein my only option to resolve a conflict is to turn to mid-fifteenth-century persian books on poison and work a dictionary to translate them myself for no translations of these books exist and i am in desperate need of an antidote to a poison i have resolved to feed my bitter friend turned enemy yet have to ingest said poison myself first so as not to arouse suspicion. i crave it