like obviously i enjoy it there is a beautiful miserable unpleasant woman coping the worst anyone has ever done it and shaking and crying and drugging herself and scheming. but the themes, also-

bridgy fed doesn't let me repost this from bluesky so I'm just stealing it wholesale

i guess I don't actually know how many people are using both modalities on the same account 🤔

oh and ben daniels is here :ablobcatheart:

surely this time I've figured out the thriller plot

okay why is there a kindly German housekeeper and a vulnerable yet tough protagonist haunted by her own public image in both of these. what's going on

"The drive from the gate to the house itself is a series of expectations either met or subverted." I know this is the beginning of a paragraph explaining which but we can't be doing this

I think fundamentally, if you write a story about a person who puts together an elaborate train-based revenge plot, and explicitly only doesn't want to kill the people involved because they'll suffer longer in prison, I don't want the story to end with her skipping off to become an FBI agent and […]

i am lying on my couch with my bookshelf directly behind my head, so fourth oz book won by virtue of positioning. oh wait it's "in" oz. well,

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to #page42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

("with a vengeance" by riley sager. so far it's a little goofy and I want the main character to be worse. but it appeals to my love of control freaks failing to control things)