Last Words from Montmartre | 
Book that #BeginsWith #Final - because “last” also constitutes final - to a certain degree? Hehe. I try.
Some of my recent potential #NYRBBookClub loot from Half Price Books here in Concord, California. 💕
pickIs it really possible that I'm the first person on Litsy to give this a pick? The discussion around this will inevitably involve the overlap between the author and the main character- the former's suicide shortly after the novel's completion and the latter's frequent references to imminent suicide as she addresses, in many of these letters, the lover who spurned her. 👇
The protagonist just wrote to his ex-girlfriend, Xu, that her breaking up with him constituted raping him. I think we're done here. #yikes
Jeezus, he SENDS his ex-girlfriend these letters. No means no, for fuck's sake.
Run, Xu, run for your life. 😨😱
I was wondering why the protagonist was so presumptuous, arrogant, and totally insufferable, and then I read the introduction and realized he was a straight guy (I default to reading first-person protagonists as women or girls, and it doesn't help that this one's name is Zoë).
I bought two new ebooks to reward myself for dragging my crampy, bleeding carcass to class today.
We‘re not exempt from the world‘s injury, so we are doomed to suffer spiritual illness over time.
#ReadJanuary #BooksByAsianWriters I have had this on my #TBR since it was released but have always set it aside because I just know that it is going to wreck me. 😭
