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Wilhelm Meister is going slowly, I can't seem to get into it. SaGN is rather wordy and dense in a different way, but fun. And the short stories are a nice late night read.

15 year old with bi-polar disorder (thus unreliable) attends private boarding school and finds herself in the crosshairs of a mean girl. It was painfully slow & nothing much happens until the last 50 pages. Ward had a weird and distracting writing tick...she started sooooo many sentences with 'As'. Like multiple instances per page. Just...no.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Toole‘s Pulitzer-winning comic opus, A Confederacy of Dunces, is one of my most favorite novels. Sadly, his life ended at age 31. The Neon Bible, published posthumously, was written when he was just 16 for a contest. It‘s a teen boy‘s stream-of-consciousness #bildungsroman. David‘s a bit of a lost soul whose family is going through 1930s tough times. Oddly funny yet profoundly sad. It‘s no Dunces, obvs, but it‘s a solid read.

I thoroughly enjoyed all of my January listens. Hopefully the same holds for February! 👍🏽🎧📚

Happy Friday all! 😊

My 72nd copy arrived via #litsylove today and believe it or not I did not have this copy ♥️😂🤯

Thanks so much @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

📸my Bronte shelves ♥️

I get the buzz around this one! I loved Maddie's story - any frustrations I had were because I wanted the world for her, not due to annoyance with the character. Very rich, very real. #contemporaryfiction #bildungsroman