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artemismatchalatte · 2 years ago

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I didn't go online at all yesterday. I self-designated a reading day and finished a book for class (The Good Solider) and one book on my owned TBR (Convenience Store Woman). It bothered me that I didn't have any books done yet for this year. I'm in the middle of three others, with a mind to start maybe one or two more, but still, it feels like very slow going.

#all those posted were queued on Monday or something and the queue ran out so I'm back to posting in real time #I've been online way too much lately and I'm absorbing a lot of stuff I don't want to so I had to step back #also I have so many books to read #I'm even looking at thriftbooks for more books #cuz I haven't read anything very good in a while #convenience store woman was interesting but focused way too much on a draining character who was basically an incel and pissed me off #the woman was interesting but the main guy character was infuriating #I treated it as a character study of this woman and how her mind worked otherwise it wouldn't have been enjoyable at all #I liked following her but the guy was in the book too much and almost took over the story at points very obnoxious #the wlw book I'm currently reading is weird and I'm not sure how I feel about it because the characters are related (though not directly)#and no one in the reviews said anything about that either- I noticed #it's also weird because it feels like a draft not a final product...there's just a lot of jumping around that makes no sense #and Ford Madox Ford wrote an INSANE book #there was no hinged character in The Good Solider- and you could trust no one #I'm going to try to argue it's a metaphor for King Henry VIII and his six wives... because it's heavily implied that's what the story is #but rewritten so it's in the 1910s and the Catharine of Aragon character never divorces him so it gets even wilder #that's the only fucking way I'm getting any sense from that book sorry but it's too odd otherwise #books #bookblr #mychatter #grad school

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