this book is funny as hell you can tell joseph heller had something weighing on his heart

obsessed with captain yossarian’s stupid ass

one thing i will say though is that i am somebody who cannot stand secondhand embarrassment or related emotions at all so this book has been very good at stressing me out. i am extremely weak to the threat of interpersonal and professional consequences and the empty wine fridge is lurking in the corner of my vision like mr x

started colored television by danzy senna. i remain unconvinced that mixed people need to be writing books about being mixed

last night i read the bluest eye in one sitting and then just sat there. toni morrison’s prose is just unreal in how lovely and melodic it is

finished sir cameron. aggressively mid book but not as bad as i was promised. the discourse is three insubstantial wisps of gossamer disguised as promisingly scathing reviews and annoying tumblr posts. waste of my time on all counts. everybody go to hell

this is BAD kink negotiation. and i’m also not convinced merulo is actually into cameron. what’s going on

sometimes it feels like having a serious discussion about literature with the white #queers on here is impossible because they are all dedicated to calling gay and trans people of color some new type of puritan for having a negative thought about depictions of like racism or sexual abuse in a novel

i said this on twitter but i read a canticle for leibowitz like five seconds before starting sir cameron and the fall off in quality of the post-apocalypse religious worldbuilding is sooooo ridiculous lol. credit to greer stothers though it’s very hard to beat the flame deluge passages. walter miller was fucking hooping

imagine getting banned from social media for saying what sir cameron did to merulo

borrowed apparently sir cameron needs to die on an impulse and this author has the disease where they have to describe all movement through space in every scene instead of just handwaving the unimportant shit away #fanfictionprose

every time adult converts to christianity are mentioned in the context of medieval or early modern europe (well excluding catholic to protestant conversions in the latter case) i’m like ??? where the fuck were they hiding

saltcrop wasn’t a bad read but the prose felt kind of simplistic at times, the sort of thing a secondary school english teacher might describe as “up-down up-down”. also did the thing i hate where Plot Events Keep Happening until you’re like 95% of the way through the book and then the rest of it has to be an epilogue that covers like six months of shit happening to resolve all the plot threads lol. respect to yume kitasei for being a public servant in mamdanistan though i love you queen

trying to have multiple hobbies and go out on the weekends like i don’t got dense ass holy feast and holy fast, a strugatsky novella collection in the original russian, bring up the bodies, gone girl, saltcrop, catch-22, the bluest eye, colored television, and the mask of fear all waiting to go back to the library in the next 2-4 weeks #LMAOOOO

reading the bear scene like “thank god thank god thank fucking god”

are the shimizus from fucking jersey