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Has nobody asked you back - what's YOUR top 2025? :)

taken me an age to answer but here she is. tv not included i spent most of the year watching the real housewives

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found a way to watch the substance and holy shit that was actual fucking insanity. i heard that the third act goes all out but i did not expect everyone to be showered in blood and monstro elisasue going absolute haywire.

that was incredible!!! absolute film of the year material right there.

RIGHT!! genuinely had the time of my life watching that third act it's just pure magic

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CAN U PUT UR CAS ROOM UP FOR DOWNLOAD I WANT IT OS BAD

LMAO ok one sec got 2 versions available:

version 1 - dark floors darker skirting boards

version 2 - the normal floors

download (sfs)

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🚨 WE ARE LESS THAN 48 HOURS AWAY FROM OCTOBER HOW ON EARTH ARE WE TO STAND IT!! Ok Miss Imo I have my popcorn popped, let's hear all about the September flops and, if applicable, your planned October's reads to remedy those flops 🍿

sorry the only flop here is me!!! 6th october and i'm only just answering this and what's worse is my september reading was so bad it's not even going under the cut so here's my

september book wrap up

girls in love and girls under pressure by jacqueline wilson

cres of castawavy fame asked if read JW growing up and as a girl in the uk of course i had. the conversation was so nostalgic and i loved Jacqueline's books growing up so i wanted to revisit this series as an adult and see what i thought. yeah, they're great books. i just love and appreciate the space for girlhood in books like these, of individuality and insecurity and the real topics that are addressed in these.

and that's all i read :) (ignoring my 2nd dnf of the year (the candid life of meena dave by namrata patel))

my october reading is already off to a much better start. finished the girls series and then as it's black history month in the uk i've created a list of Black horror books to read! i couldn't find much Black British horror which was a real shame so i'm planning on getting back into a nonfiction moment, maybe reading some texts on windrush that kind of thing

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IMO im sending this so early NOT because I'm trying to beat you (though it does feel nice 🤭) but I'll be offline during our usual end-of-month wrap-up + i SHANT make you wait long!!! HOW DID AUGUST GO! I read ur goodreads review on The Picture of Dorian Gray but I'm dying to hear more 👁️ + do u think you're gonna try and shift into ~fall vibes~ for reading now (whatever that means to you) or continue to go with the flow?

hi cas this was such a jumpscare getting this over a week ago but i'm glad you were able to beat me! of course there's a new autumnal vibe in the books i'll be reading i've even updated my discord profile (goodbye summer kendall you were great)

but i can go into more detail in the

august book wrap up

(2 days early but i'm not finishing a book in 2 days)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Original 1980 Uncensored Edition) by Oscar Wilde

well i read a book. there were some really interesting threads in this, i thought Dorian being a narcissistic weirdo was cool to read about, but other than the end of the book taking a much darker turn, i did't find much about this impressive. i don't like reading books expecting them to work harder for me to enjoy them, but i struggled to want to read this.

Must I Go by Yiyun Li

wasn't what i expected it to be, not really a fan of what it was. you give me an 88 year old woman who's survived her eldest daughter's suicide and raised her granddaughter and is looking after her greatgrandaughter and what do we do? we spend almost 200 pages of her dissecting the journal of some random man who ended up marrying his cousin and lived his whole life not knowing he had said daughter? why. i don't care! i don't care!!!!!!! and then when Lila (the character in question) did talk about herself, her mother having her dreams crushed in her marriage, her three marriages and further 4 children, it's just brushed over and kind of shrugged at. none of the "important" men in her life are alive and yet they took up so much of the book. whatever you keep dead people alive in your memory but other than being reminded how selfish and uncaring Lila was there wasn't much about this i felt positive about. wouldn't recommend, went straight in my donation pile.

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

i finally did it. what a rollercoaster! i absolutely hate reading first person books when i find the character annoying. not to say a bad person, or morally defunct or anything. just plain old annoying. Elena Greco is annoying. fine in the first 2 as she's 10-22 years old and it's expected, but the third book sees her in her mid 20s early 30s and i genuinely wanted to throw this book at a wall. i struggle to see this as a tale of friendship at this point just because like. they aren't friends??? they're two women who at this point are bound by history and maybe that's the point but i want better for Lila and she remains the star of the show

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

i finished the quartet and feel emotionally wrung out. this was going fine but i think it's around 350 pages in there's a full blown "relationship" between Lila's 24 year old son and Elena's 15 year old daughter???? reading from the perspective of an awful mother was so jarring, too. really enjoyed the series, i just feel like i felt very untethered towards the end and i just wanted it to end

september / autumnal reads

i'm annoyed that i've ended up in such a white reading space so will be fixing that for sure. also need a romance, i haven't read one i've liked this year! something fun is overdue. i have some horror books picked out but that's not for a little while yet. i don't see myself picking up anything new (maybe?) so i'll just be picking from what i already bought, trying some contemporary reads that have been rotting on my shelf for the past year

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📫 Simblr ask: If you had to kill one of your sims who would it be and why?

oh wow i got one of these

i'd kill this guy for existing

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just wanna let u know that ur part of the reason why i started watching succession and now i'm obsessed help

i'm SO glad that you're enjoying it!!! what are your thoughts

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IMO IT'S THE LAST WEEKENd OF JULY!! Ty for letting me be the first this time I'm sure it was very hard to wait on my slow ass (I did mean to send this sooner & not literally the very last weekend but alas this job of remembering is in fact very hard 💔) JULY BOOKS + POTENTIAL AUGUST READS PLS!! 🤲

HIIIIII i can't believe july went by so quickly with such awful weather here in the uk! as i swore to myself i'd be outside doing things this summer i get hit with overcast miserable weather and rain! i did enjoy a weekend trip to barcelona to make the most of the beautiful 30 degree heatwave and enjoyed a lot of sangria and picked up such a fun book for that trip let's get into the

july book wrap up

(spoilers: i did not read #3 in the neapolitan quartet... maybe august)

Thiefs Journal by Jean Genet

theeeee most challenging book i've ever read i think. it was like doing a boss fight where you're 5 levels below the recommended level and you can get through it but it's hardfought. stellar, though. there's a lot that went over my head on this initial read, but i loved reading this book even when struggling through it. Genet's candidness was so refreshing i admired his voice and how unashamed he was to hold positions and opinions that were hypocritical, even. i saw this was added to your tbr recently, and i think you'll love it too!

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

no reprieve! jumping right into another difficult book. one of my long term reading goals is to continue seeking out more non-english fiction, and coming across this book (i think it was in the list of recommended reading at the back of Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles as suggested by Penguin) was kind of serendipitous. i wish my reading had credited me more Big Words for discussing books like these but it's one of those ones where i'm itching to hear someone else's perspective on this so i'll do some googling. enjoyed it though!

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

my barcelona read. i took my mom for her birthday, so it was only fitting i read another book giving voice to disjointed mother-daughter relationships. i loved this. i'll never get bored of this subject matter, and i think Riley did a commendable job at presenting something well-balanced between real emotional turmoil and humour. what stuck out to me most was holding yourself back from expressing yourself wholly to your mom in the same breath that you expect her to be vulnerable and the kind of. dance you do back and forth to test who'll blink first kind of thing. second plane read that's blown me away this year

The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky

i just finished this today so thoughts may be a touch too fresh, but this was really like reading a character study on the main four in gossip girl if we'd followed them through to their 30s (big 4 being blair, dan, SVDW and nate). that snobbish upper-middle class art and literature intellectualism with high society expectations as a measure for acceptable behaviour. i appreciate books that are well researched and go the extra mile, and this did it for me. shame i got stuck with the ugly cover version.

august reads

i've already picked out my next read! rue (of okruee fame) and i will be buddy reading The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and if the weather gets better i will finally pick up ferrante #3. i'm 27/35 books towards my reading goal and feeling pretty good tbh <3

also on the road to Being 25, i have started organising my birthday, as you do when it's in december i've booked my hotel and flights so excited to be a girl in new york