it’s so fun which is perfect for the post-winter dopamine hit.. i read most of it in a car in the sun & it was super enjoyable
Apr 14, 2025
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This world is a life sentence. I’m in a state of constant, low grade agitation. Crust gathered around my eyelids like dead weeds in the summer sun. I’m sitting in the line for the COSTCO gasoline station in Van Nuys, CA as I type this. It’s hot and stifling and the malformed waddler phenotype directly in front of me can’t for the life of her get her COSTCO card to read at the scanner. I’m seething, seething in my non-air conditioned 2005 Toyota Solara. It occurs to me that when the government decides to suspend the constitution & institute mass incarcerations, they won’t even need to erect FEMA camps. I’m thinking forced relocation of insurgent population to COSTCO’s around the country. it won’t even be forced. We’ll all just move in & relish the the opportunity to finally, holistically Live in Bulk™️ . In this moment, when being a total misanthrope comes as easily, as urgently as reaching for the glass of water on the floor next to the mattress (also on the floor), I can’t help but think to myself “the narrator from my year of rest & relaxation is literally me”.
Fun, easy breezy read. Made me lol a couple of times. Middle part drags a bit, but the ending’s brilliant. late to the party on this one, but glad I finally got around to it
Apr 16, 2024
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For months since the start of the pandemic, I’ve had trouble getting back into reading for pleasure. I graduated from my Master’s program in May 2020, and was experiencing a lot of literary fatigue… I was studying medieval English literature, and had been up to my ears in readings for months, so I think at the end of it all I was just incredibly burnt out. This book changed that. Set in a post-Covid, semi-fictionalized version of Palm Beach, it’s incredibly fun, and just of-the-moment enough to feel like an inside joke for our times, without veering into the hyper-current or crinegworthy.
Apr 15, 2021
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it’s genuinely very good and very easy reading and very fun and very sad - highly rec the audiobook version available on Libby if ur local publjc library subscribes to it
Feb 25, 2024
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regular polish is so much easier than gel & lets u feel like a character from a 00s teen movie
Mar 10, 2025
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aka songs u listened to when u had a crush on someone that only makes u think of them + that feeling … jonathan by fiona apple; various faye wong songs; ant in alaska by liz phair …
Dec 22, 2024
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embarrassingly my only real nighttime ritual… delicious & surely good for you i hope
Nov 11, 2024