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she kills the man who assaults her and gets away with it [I am so sick of Western canon destroying any woman who ever fights back] :)
Feb 19, 2025
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It’s an unusual novel
Content warning? Everything
It’s charming and violent and witty and shocking. But fun. And very murderous.
I’ve never liked a protagonist more, and I’ve read literally some books.
Apr 30, 2024
i just finished this afternoon - I really enjoyed it! it was really quick and as I read, I could feel my chest tightening up, my breath quickening, my eyes sprinting through words on the page so I didnt have to suffer any more anxiety about the ending than necessary.
my only observation(?)/critique is that it’s very on the nose, it’s exactly what it says on the tin. You won’t be getting any vast explorations of the human psyche, just a devilishly good descent into a woman’s breaking mind as every aspect of control of her life is taken from her, and destroyed. 8/10!
4d ago
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I'm ridiculously behind and everyone has probably already read it. But I finished Gone Girl a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. The suspense, dual unreliable narrators, and strange intimacy you sense between them...phenomenal. You start by thinking Nick (the husband) doesn't know his wife at all and that he has just projected all his self-loathing onto her. Then you realize he wasn't entirely wrong and you didn't know Amy either. You don't know them but you do. They don't know each other but they do they do they do. The titular theme that you can never really know someone (yet you also can) summarized in these lines from the first page:
What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have ... What have we done to each other? What will we do?
*funny note 1: this was my 3rd attempt at reading Gone Girl over the past 4 years. every time i tried to read it i could never get to Amy's part because i just haaaaatedddd Nick so much i couldn't bear to be in his head any longer.
*funny note 2: my boyfriend was extra cautious around me and even a little anxious while i was reading LMAO
*sidenote: the movie was fine. i thought the pacing was a little fast, but understandable. what i didn't like was you didn't see any of Nick's internal monologue, so he just seems like a regular bum kind of a dick. when really he's like a huge piece of shit.
Jan 26, 2024
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going out is expensive and afternoons & evenings can be busy, invite someone over to your place before noon and make a pot of coffee — enjoy company for company’s sake 🥂
Apr 13, 2025
dishing with my husband at the Mexican restaurant around the corner is my new Mass 👯💕
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