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So far this is a little random and surreal (and not focused on plot so much) but I‘m intrigued.

This one got a little crazy, so crazy that I had to take a break and read a Marian Keyes before I came back. Cassie is in her new life in San Francisco at a toxic tech startup. There‘s homelessness, rising rents, people setting themselves on fire, a boyfriend who is not hers, and she has this black hole that accompanies her everywhere that sometimes gets bigger or smaller depending on her loneliness. This was wild and depressing. This belongs 👇🏼

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“Ripe“ by Sarah Rose Etter is my pick for #BadBossDay. #autumnplease #scarathlon @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Actually, spoilt. .

With blurbs from Carmen Maria Machado and Kristen Arnett, you know this won‘t be a typical book, and that‘s a good thing! While I was screaming for a bit, “Buy a damn pregnancy test!” I still liked this.

Cassie has moved to SF to work in tech, but it‘s not what she thought it would be. Crushed by depression, she‘s pretty sure she‘s pregnant by her open relationship boyfriend. With few friends to lean on, her life is spiraling into a black hole.

Meh, maybe wrong book at the wrong stage of life. Other books (My Year of Rest; Really Good Actually; Pisces) have been 5 star reads for me. This was different. There‘s no snarky, dark humor to help this one. I thought the short chapters would make for a quick read, but I found myself just not wanting to pick up the book and took forever and a day to finish it. Lots of problems with this one for me at this current life stage. It‘s a me problem.

If you‘re curious what a bunch of the big book clubs are reading this month: https://bookriot.com/august-2023-book-club-picks/

“You have to betray yourself first in order for anyone else to betray you.”

This book was so gut-wrenching, so powerful and made me feel so many things that I‘m still processing at the moment.

One of my favorite reads so far this year! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Started this one a few hours ago and I‘m already at 42%! It has been a very engaging read, so far!

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I‘m used to thinking of Sarah Rose Etter as a surrealist, and a master surrealist at that. What‘s most interesting to me here is that what feels the most off-kilter in this book is actually the most realistic. Bleak, tense, darkly comic, compelling.

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This is a fascinating but depressing book about Cassie who works for Voyager in the Silicon Valley. Since childhood she‘s had a “black hole” following her which manifests itself whenever she become anxious (which is a lot)! Weird things happen as the virus spreads and Cassie becomes embroiled in an affair. Crazy but mind-blowing!
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