I'm kind of glad that my theater was numb to every single thing said/done in the film because if someone laughed at that point, I might have gotten in a fight.

(portlandia meme) it's the new year

It wasn't even real! It was fiber bloat from a smoothie! Getting sabotaged by air in my guts!!!!

(reading my own post) people just say anything

Anyway, I feel as if this book had instead been a novella that ended with part one, it would have been a solid 8 out of 10.

Made me wonder what the next big trend in female rage writing will be, though. Decapitations? Free bleeding? Authoritarian dictatorships?

I had also just read What Hunger by Catherine Dang just a few weeks ago, so I came in a little, pardon my pun, full up on this particular metaphor.

I also feel like I might have liked it a lot more if I had stumbled upon it at the time of its publication, not several years later when the "what if a woman/girl struggling under patriarchy became feral and ate things as an allegory for her repression" trend had become quite played out.

I feel like this book would have been far more successful as a novella or a novelette. The prose and premise were fine, but it felt far more suited to a shorter medium than a novel.

Do you guys actually believe this stuff

Literally just started watching this right before I saw this post!

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I would always forget to log books until this year LOL

Thank YOU!

I also read some good theory this year, but I'd definitely like to start building more. My feminist text to-read list is still pretty high.

Both of Mona Awad's Bunny books were among my favorites this year, after the first one had been sitting on my shelf unread for several years. It all felt very ironic, as the sequel was released right around the exact time I finished it.

I also read a number of classics this year, both fiction and non, and my two favorites were probably Brave New World and Lolita.

This did unfortunately lead me to realize that both have some pretty odious adaptations out there.