Decided to give the book another go after listening to Jamie Loftus’ podcast, I had read the book as a teenager deep in my tumblr phase, and had come away confused: why didn’t I like the narrator, why didn’t I find it very romantic or erotic? Reader, I was never supposed to. Understanding Delores Hayes as a fully grown adult is a very different experience, and I think this is like many other pieces of media that are brilliant, but a once only experience (like Grave of the Fireflies, maybe)

I still think about this book from time to time because it impacted me so much. Wishing Jennette nothing but happiness.

Read till chapter 3 and I've teared up four times already. I think this book will destroy me.

hi guys, i found out about this website through booktwt!!! very excited about the upcoming app and i think i'll really enjoy navigating this space!

If you're someone who DNFs books, what's one of the silliest or pettiest reasons you've stopped reading? I'll go first with some of mine: - The author kept repeating the same words/phrase, I couldn't stop noticing it and after 4 chapters I'd had enough - The MMC had the same name as an ex and I wasn't about to read a whole book where he gets a happy ending - They didn't use any punctuation marks at all Please tell me I'm not the only one who abandons books that should be interesting to me for ridiculous reasons?

hi! i hope this isn't an annoyingly frequent question—i searched and couldn't find anything. is there any consensus on participating in quests that include books you've already read? for example—i just joined the vampire quest 🧛‍♀️ but have already read dracula & iwtv, for example. should i include them as being "read" for the quest? i'm leaning towards not marking them as counting towards my progress so that i can push myself to read more new books, but was curious what others are doing or if there are any official "rules" i missed!