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the myth of the hot crazy girl (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks before I moved out of my mother’s house, we embarked on a pilgrimage to the austere grey retail park on the edge of town, a short row of squat, square buildings between a quarry and a defence contractor, hoping to treat ourselves to an item from the M&S bakery, which is just about all the fun you can have in the home counties without taking your clothes off. This could have been any day, any place, and I likely wouldn’t remember it at all if we hadn’t dropped into the pet store
cold blooded old times (opens the original)
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This is the worst thing Patrick has ever said to me: ‘Sometimes I wonder if you actually like being like this.’— Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss<img alt="This may contain: two people standing next to ea
the best books you've probably never heard of (opens the original)
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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer Anne Hathaway bought the film rights to Yesteryear, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.Over the last few months in the book review space, I’ve noticed a concerning homogeneity in the book recommendations and listicles taking ‘bookstagram’ and assorted media by storm. Every third post seems to be a carousel of ‘weird girl lit’ ‘or best new books’ carrying the same titles over and over. It’s fantastic for the authors mentioned, of course, but m
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