#litblogging

[jennycalendar]

Finished strong poison and I really can’t just jump to the next one because I’m still so besotted with lord peter in love. Has a man ever been such a fucking disaster trainwreck. Handles the situation with the grace of a goose falling down some stairs & the best part is that while harriet is clearly bruised from her immensely awful ordeal she’s also clearly fascinated by whatever the fuck he has going on. What the fuck DOES he have going on. bunter calls him on it in .5 seconds because he’s been out at all hours trying to track down leads to prove harriet didn’t do it even though ALL AVAILABLE EVIDENCE SAYS SHE DID and he’s like (entirely serious) “how did bunter know i’m in love. i don’t think it’s super noticeable”

[scuderlia]

on the carmen maria machado topic and the topic of the book that lily's holding in that photo, you can read one of the stories from the collection (her body and other parties) for free online! it's called the husband stitch <3

[kokkuri3]

Wait Nico di Angelo is Italian. Like I guess it should be obvious but I always envisioned him as Latine for some reason

[studyous]

instagram: studyous

13.10.19 • although i’m really enjoying donna tartt’s ‘the little friend’, it’s taking me ages to read. i flew through ‘the secret history’ and ‘the goldfinch’ when i read those a few years ago, but for some reason i’m finding this one a lot denser. her writing is beautiful as always, but the plot is less tightly packed and there’s a lot more exposition. i’m really enjoying the story though, and i love harriet as a protagonist! i’m desperate to find out what happens, but i seem to recall hearing that this is a book with an ambiguous ending, which doesn’t bode well...

[jennycalendar]

I LOVE A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL AT FIRST SIGHT

[jennycalendar]

listening to abba's "the name of the game" and thinking about toby/tybalt so i guess this is . i guess i live here now on some level

[jennycalendar]

HSHDNNGJFKJFKF wimsey pausing by a sickass flower display and being like “wow this is tasteful. Who sent this to the deceased” and reading the card and finding an extremely sweet note signed with his own name and being like thank fucking god for bunter

[jennycalendar]

MORE SILVER AND LEAD SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT i’m just ………

tybalt and toby have wanted to be parents for SO LONG!!!!!! toby has never gotten over the heartbreak and the grief of losing the chance to raise her daughter and it permeates everything she does in every book. tybalt spends literally all of silver and lead on DEFCON 1 because last time his wife was pregnant she died in childbirth and he was left totally powerless to stop it AND last time his wife wasn’t October “Gave Her Ribs To The Luidaeg” Daye so he’s just WRACKED with anxiety. I am always overall kind of ambivalent about a happily ever after involving kids but in this specific instance — the chance to have kids represents so much to both october and tybalt as people, and the chance to have kids with someone they love and trust and are committed to is SO meaningful for both of them. so it is hard not to go crazy when i think about both of them holding that little baby girl with her tabby hair. only had miranda for less than a day but if anything happened to her i would kill every one in this building and then myself (and clearly her parents feel the same way)