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Wow. It’s been a WHILE. How are you? What a wild time it’s been...”unprecedented” I believe is the word? Anyway, if any of you are still active on here, I have a book IG and TikTok. Follow me @strangequarkbooks on both, and let’s pick up where we left off :) 

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The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters - My Random Thoughts and Summary ***Spoilers Ahead***

I found this in my Google Drive, and I just needed to share. Of course I only did two chapters because I have the attention span of a newborn. 

Chapter 1: A Charmed Individual

Livie, 17. At a show on her bday, 31 Oct, 1900. Portland, OR

Percy, cute boy Livie likes. Son of a judge.

Henry Reverie, hypnotist, stands on Livie’s torso. She’s into his smile. Makes her forget Percy.

Chapter 2: Womanhood Perfected

Livie doesn’t know wtf happened on stage.

Livie feels stoned after the hypnotism. Feelin’ good, girl.

Percy asks Livie if he can drive her home. She’s like, who, me? Oh my.

He has his own buggy ‘cause he’s rich.

Percy reveals to Livie that seeing her under the complete control of some random man on stage gives him a boner.

Percy says Livie was “as beautiful as Sleeping Beauty.” Truly vomitous.

But he’s super vague about whether or not he agrees with his father’s misogyny. More vomit. Mindgames. Men are sociopaths.

Livie’s dad is a ghoulish dentist who smiles as he yanks teeth out of patients’ mouths.

Ensuing convo about the use of leeches in dentistry solidifies source of Livie’s like of horror novels. Parents, they’ll fuck you up.

Percy and Livie bond over having monsters for fathers.

I bond with Percy over our mutual fear of dentists.

Livie’s dad “clomps” out of the fucking shadows.

Percy and Livie talk about Livie like she’s not standing right there. Ladies? Where? Do you mean chairs?

We discover shy little Livie WENT TO A PROTEST ON THE LOW BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO FUCKING VOTE.

As expected, men everywhere lose their fucking minds. Exhibit A: Livie’s dad threatens to pull her out of high school and send her to a fucking convent.

Livie and Percy tell Clomps McGee about Henri Reverie. We can tell Clomps McGee has the beginning of an idea. As we know, men’s ideas are usually awful.

Percy wants to take Livie to a party. Clomps has to think about it. No one fucking asks Livie anything.

Rich client of Clomps saw Livie at the protest and snitched. What a dirty snitch. NEVER TRUST RICH PEOPLE.

Clomps is an asshole to his daughter and all women simultaneously. An injury to one is an injury to all.

Something called the Oregon Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women exists. They put the “ass” in “association.”

The first mention of a “bulging blue vein,” and unfortunately not the last.

Why is Livie’s room “cherry-blossom-pink”? Pink was a boy’s color until the 1940’s according to The Smithsonian Magazine because I fact check. 

Foot binding shout out

It’s been mentioned a few times that Livie is really into Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Bram Stoker sounds like the name of  a SoCal tech bro.

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Omg, can't wait.

I'm so excited for the good omens tv show, its one of my favorite books! If I had a bookstore I feel lile I would be lile aziraphale and just hoard the books without letting anyone buy them lol. In regards to the show, do they let you have a lot of input, in regards to keeping things true to the spirit of the book, or is it mostly a hands off enterprise for you?

It’s the most hands on enterprise I’ve ever done. I wrote the scripts, and am the showrunner, and I was there from casting and preproduction and will be there until the end of post production.

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Wow I love this post

if i had to get in a fistfight with any member of the fellowship it would be Frodo because i would easily win

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Lmao

Iconic

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Have you heard of some of the Coraline theories? Like the theory that Coraline is struggling to cope with the death of her parents and refuses to believe they’re really gone, hence the rotten groceries. There are a few others but I don’t have too many characters to get through them all, if you haven’t checked out the Theorizer on Coraline you should. Pretty interesting. Are you in a position to confirm or deny these theories? Or are we all just looking into it too much?

I wrote the book. Henry Selick wrote the film, and made it with hundreds of people. Since that time millions of people have read the book and enjoyed the film, and some of them have come up with lots of glorious theories and some of them get sent to me, (many of these Coraline theories, if they were true, would preclude other Coraline theories, equally as glorious). 

And there aren’t just glorious theories. There are also barking-mad theories. There are even theories I find on the one hand barking-mad and offensive, but on the other hand sort of sweet, as people obviously put lots of time and effort into deciding that (for example) watching Coraline will brainwash you, or whatever.

And my conclusion is that I don’t think I need to be part of this conversation. It’s fan-fiction, on a large scale, and fan-fiction should, I think, exist apart from the author. So I am glad the theories are out there, even the barking-mad ones. (But watching Coraline will not turn you into an Illuminati mind-slave.)

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Wow. Lots to think about.

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

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💜

My mum keeps on taking your books off me (my brother buys them for me) because "they are unsuitable for young ladies". And it's annoying cos I love your books!!

The part of me that wants to answer like a Problem Page Person thinks you should talk to your mother and communicate with her about what you like about books and reading and how they improve our horizons and knowledge of the world and suchlike, and that it should all end in hugging and a promise from her to let you make your own mistakes and read what you need to read.

The part of me that loves books just thinks you need to hide your books better, and wonders whether putting respectable book-covers on them covering up the ones they already have would do the trick.

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What a gem. 

Are you really the real Neil gaiman?

I am merely one of a monstrous horde of Neil Gaimans. We share a life and a home, but have many different pairs of shoes.

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Not book related, but my brother related. He’s great! 

Me to my brother: Take care of yourself this semester. Eat veggies.

Brother: What are veggies

Me: These edible things that grow out of the ground that are good for you.

Brother: Out of the ground? That sounds kind of gross

Me: It’s mother earth trying to feed you how dare you

Brother: By growing food for me out of its skin, sounds like a trap

Gen Z really is questioning EVERYTHING 😂

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U ok?

Don’t worry… we passed the sign on our way out

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This is not book related, but I have a duty to my people to spread this wonderful piece of art far and wide. 

If you’re not watching La Casa de las Flores, I ask thee, what are you doing with your life?!?!?!?!?! 

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I am planning on devouring these!

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lmao

@englishmajorhumor I’m dead

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Nice

rick riordan off the shits

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“A tired girl with a plain face and a distinct lack of fire in her pale brown eyes peered back at me from the glass.” The Cure for Dreaming, Cat Winters.

This is my 30′s aesthetic so far. 

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Mmmmmmm