Laurie McKane’s Reviews > What a Time to Be Alive > Status Update
Laurie McKane
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"Socialising is an activity that drains me both before and after the event. Before is then struggle to leave home...Returning home after I feel bulldozed, skin tense from aggressive smiling. The morning after, I get the hangover, an anxiety so acute as to be life changing, methodically going over the evening's word-for-word dialogue. The faults I find in my behaviour, I will convince myself to be apocalyptic."
— Jun 22, 2025 10:08AM
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Laurie McKane
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"I had hoped this would be one of those times, those lovely times, where the excitement turns into exhaustion, but then turns again, into gratitude, to myself for forcing my thighs out to one of those glorious nights, when moods soar and people are nice and you fall a little bit in love with everybody."
— Jun 23, 2025 03:05AM
Laurie McKane
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"What surprised me was not Hanna having read it because she seemed like a person who would. What surprised me was her view of me as someone who would also read this book, and enjoy it."
— Jun 22, 2025 10:10AM
