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I haven't actually read this yet, maybe I should 🤔
If you do uh It's pretty good Idk, it might become ur whole personality?
Perhaps, maybe I should read it now to coincide with yours like a mini book club, I love book clubs after all
Absolutely!!! I can recite passages of this from memory so hit me up anytime!!!
Oh. Oh this is going to fuck me up big time. Let's fucking go this'll be fun
Chapter 2
Fuck I felt all of these. I haven't felt half of these feelings in years but reading them each just felt like a punch in the gut when I remembered. Especially the first and last, although I felt both of those still less than a year ago.
Nevada is Like That tbh, possibly the first time anybody put those feelings onpage in a novel too. It's kinda rad.
Yeah definitely noticing, very rad.
Chapter 3 (CW: Suicide)
That sudden shift of Maria's thoughts towards something suicide-adjacent to avoid thinking about something she doesn't want to think about is... Very close to home. I've definitely done it, but the particular example here also just reminds me of the ideations I used to consistently have during classes when I started thinking a little too much about myself. I'll spare you the details.
Um Maria, have you met book snobs? They love that shit. Or at least the theatre-adjacent ones do. Also she just like me frfr.
I don't know if I really relate to her emotionlessness and masking, but that's because I think getting on estrogen has mostly helped my old depression symptoms so I can't really relate to them still being there like hers are.
Maybe also just me being more neurotypical than she is meant to be. I can still relate to them to an extent but now that its been a few months the feelings almost feel a little alien to me. Odd.Actually wait I just realised this is just a more deadpan version of the thing I do when arguing sometimes where I switch into humour to cope instead of actually engaging with the situation. Somehow never thought of it that way but it makes sense.