Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

The whole vaccine plot-line just really...That doesn't poke at my 2020/2021 flashbacks at allll...I'm fine
"Father I crave violence"

Did it take me a while to figure out what the cover was...yes.
Me throughout the book (not necessarily in order):

The fluff. Like... So necessary. I just wanna go look at fanart now. And read some fanfic. 

An out of context: 

Epilogues. Epilogues. Epilogues. I have a very specific scene I want to reference from a hero movie, but it would literally spoil the whole thing if I did it.
I'm just...going to go cry...because I have emotions...
AND THERE'S ANOTHER SERIES IN THE SAME WORLD COMING. Chloe Gong owns me. 
Read the series and then ask me about it. Because I have THOUGHTS that I could make into an essay. Chloe Gong likes Taylor Swift and the clue level and foreshadowing: it's Swift level. And yes. I am going full-Swiftie on this.

512 Pages

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Marshall and Benedickt are just iconic and honestly. Perfection. Marshall is so extra and I stan that. Like. He quotable
The Romeo and Juliet tropes, and the moments when there's homages to the writing
"The human equivalent of stale bread" ...I'm going to write that in my insult journal to save for later....
I've been remembering the story (the original), so I feel like I'm connecting dots and

464 Pages

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Me whenever anyone does anything occult:

 "Who died?" my brain:

"Welcome to New York" my brain:

Am I counting the number of boys/girls and like...matching them up...yes
"Charity begins at home. So does mental illness."
siiiiiiiiigh. and now there are going to be copy-cat killers

When they try to do Momma Mary dirty:

I'm here for Jericho.

Transubstansiation...please don't do the Eucharist dirty. 
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaas my ship. I have two but yessss I wanted this one.
Das awkward
He's a Marvel character
I CAN SEE ALL THE EQUATIONS.

496 Pages

The Paris Hours by Alex George

 The Paris Hours by Alex George

Pages: 272

Rating: 4 out of 5

Set in 1927 Paris with events all happening over one day, this story shows four common people being touched by living in Paris and having contact with literary and artistic geniuses of the time. All four are searching for something they have lost, sometimes something physical but always some part of themselves. 

Camille, as the maid of Marcel Proust, knows his secrets and keeps them, but did he keep all of hers? Souren, a refuge, and puppeteer with his own version of fairy tales shared with the children in the park. Starving artist Guillaume, hopes meeting Gertrude Stein will change his luck. Jean-Paul a journalist always telling other people's stories, but is inspired to share his painful story, when he meets Josephine Baker. The foursome's paths cross in the end, and each learns what they are really looking for. 

Beautifully describes Paris in between World War I and World War II as a city recovering from war and a center of thought and art. Everyone in the story has been touched by the war in someway, so a bittersweet story. 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I haven't read a lot of classics... I'm catching up. I've been trying to read The Great Gatsby for a while.. I know for a class I analyzed the first chapter as a first chapter.
So Fitzgerald has really pretty writing.
180 Pages

Blood River Rising by Victoria Pope Hubbell

Blood River Rising by Victoria Pope Hubbell

"Some day, something will happen to you, and regardless of the outcome here on earth, you'll know what you felt and saw and heard. And you'll agree with me that something else [God] is there with you.
"Both Crismon and Dad were wounded that day."

Part oral history, part the author's musings and recollections of sessions with 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, Blood River Rising details a little-known feud that took place in Miller County, Missouri, in the 1920s. When the Crismons first move next door to the Thompsons--the family of the aforementioned Hadley Thompson--it seems as if their relationship will be the normal neighborly sort. But when tensions rise because of the presence of the Ku Klux Klan, life will be forever altered for the two families.

236 pages.