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Famesick - I've always had a general fondness for Lena Dunham and this was extremely compelling. Good gossip. Felt honest and affecting. She's a great and clear storyteller. A couple moments that will make you say "ohhhh Lena Dunham, okayyyyyy girl" but I think that SHOULD be the case in a good memoir.

Artificial Condition*/Rogue Protocol*/Exit Strategy*/Fugitive Telemetry*/Network Effect*/System Collapse* - Nice :) For some reason I always think I don't like Rogue Protocol but it might be my favourite of the novellas. Also I think I was a hater about System Collapse when I first read it because I thought it was really samey to Network Effect which I really don't think is true anymore! What a life!

Platform Decay - New MB hence the reread of everything else. A few really special moments but I mostly only thought this was fine. Perhaps in a year when I reread the whole series I will like it more. Ever since I read A Room of One's Own I can't stop going "undigested!!!!" big undigested vibes in parts of this one.

American Fantasy - Finally!!!!!!! I love Emma Straub's newsletters and it's been the great mystery of her fiction that someone whose thoughts I find so charming and readable is writing so much fiction that I am mid to cold on. This was it though! The book that finally lived up to how much I love her substack. Charming, lovely, romantic, wonderful. I just thought this was so fun, every POV really additive to the story. Much less simple than I was kind of expecting and I loved it!

Troubled Waters* - Yay! Went to a massive used book store this month and found a bunch of Sharon Shinn :)

Beguiling the Beauty/Tempting the Bride/Ravishing the Heiress - Okay well awesome tbh. Really great time had by me. Read all three in one fell swoop.

The Luckiest Lady in London/His at Night - Didn't like these as much as the other trilogy but cannot deny Thomas has the sauce.

Dolly All the Time - New Annabel Monaghan! Romantic! I love how she writes relationships and she's the one author who I consistently like child/parent relationships from. She really intros some class stuff in this that doesn't feel fully thought through or convincing and that is the strongest impression I am left with after reading the book. Still liked it though, she's too good at atmosphere and family and friendship for me not to have a good time.

A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter - You might remember that I have had the same set of like 30 library books on my ereader for the last, idk, four-six years and every year I say that I'm going to read them and then I don't again. Well! I still didn't read them but I finally decided to give up and put some new books on there because, to be frank, it was past time. In the process of transferring all the ebooks I have on my phone etc I found this Coldbreath that I grabbed a copy of whenever I was reading a bunch of her stuff. Largely it was unconvincing and sort of vague but she can write the shit out of a festival! Inspired me to read A Most Maligned Miss from her which was batshit and awesome.