OMG relevant on so many levels!!!

Oh thank god @klausetillman.bsky.social for sparing this post from total crickets 🤣

Ohhhhh I’m not active on Goodreads. I just lurk and see what my sister is reading haha. *I* will look for you tho!

Agree! It is what made me pick up Wellness 🩷

Ok so we are book soulmates. I absolutely LOVED The Women, Midnight Library, and TT&T. And oh god All Fours. I will never be the same, in a good way and possibly bad way. This all means I must check out Hello Beautiful and Doppelgänger. I like to slip in NF every 5 or so books

The simulation is glitching!!! 🤣

Haha RIGHT? And oh wow. Did you know the book took place in Chicago or was it a coincidence??

So good! If you have any other book recs please share - I need a holiday by-the-fire read!

And if none of that is your jam, it also has entire wonderful, adorable chapters on the day to day glory of new love

I’m going to make everyone read the “Needy Users: A drama in seven algorithms” section of the book. It shows, step by step, how people fall for conspiracy theories and how parent-child rifts occur (are caused!!!!). I mean I thought I understood it before, vaguely, but now I REALLY get it!

This character runs an entire company that capitalizes on the placebo effect, giving people “medications” that she tells them will fix their marriages - and they do! So fun to think through how placebo effects could be used IRL

One of the characters does the marshmallow test on her child, which does NOT go the way she wants. But then she later reads work like Celeste Kidd’s reanalysis of that experiment that shows how it’s all socioeconomic status and feels better haha

n = 231 Black men in a literature where there is next to no information on Black men and their eating disorder risk or protective factors!