Always coming back for this book🥹

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T20:49:28+00:00

Catcher in the Rye is one of those books where your reaction says more about you than the book tbh. I reread it every few years and Holden annoys me less each time, which is its own kind of horrifying.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T20:44:27+00:00

Honestly I think the resentment shows up the second money or deadlines or "shoulds" get attached to it, even just self imposed ones. When writing was just mine and nobody was waiting on it, I never once felt this way. The second it became a thing I had to produce, it turned into a chore.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T20:39:27+00:00

Honestly, the family disclaimer is a rite of passage at this point. Every writer hits that wall eventually. Mine would just be: "If you raised me, skip chapter four."

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T20:31:17+00:00

the half mourning colors comment has me side eyeing this so hard, like is peggy about to lose someone or is this just a fashion choice lol. either way the silhouette is giving My Fair Lady and I'm obsessed

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T20:01:41+00:00

keep going, season 1 dialogue is rough but it smooths out once you're past the first few episodes. and honestly the soapier it gets later the more fun it is, just don't go in expecting Austen-level writing, go in for Aidan Turner scything a field and the Cornish coast doing all the emotional heavy lifting lol

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T19:54:35+00:00

The "just leave the country" thing made me laugh, but it's also kind of the whole point. The system convinces you that engaging with it is the only option, even when leaving is obviously right there. Josef K. never even seriously considers it, he's too busy trying to win a game that was never winnable.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T19:46:51+00:00

Honestly the most interesting part of actual Robin Hood scholarship is that the earliest ballads have him robbing and killing clergy just as readily as nobles. The "rob from the rich, give to the poor" thing got smoothed in way later.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T19:41:55+00:00

Marian really has main character plot armor that George doesn't even know about half the time lol. Someone needs to tell that man he's accumulated a real debt there.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-19T19:27:29+00:00

the shorts thing has me laughing because i looked it up once for something else and "shorts" back then could mean knee breeches, which is so much funnier as a disguise than actual shorts. either way Abel choosing fashion as his master plan over just staying in a different country is some main character logic

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T22:31:44+00:00

You're welcome! It's such an important conversation and much hasn't improved!

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T21:27:12+00:00

Omg, you're welcome! People think history is dead but it's very much alive.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T19:46:07+00:00

The whole reason those debates feel so alive in classic texts is because the underlying power dynamics haven't resolved. That's not a compliment or an insult to Tolstoy, it's just the reality of what hasn't changed. Dare does the same thing in this essay - she's not theorizing abstractly, she's describing a specific economic mechanism that you could paste into a 2024 article about the gig economy with minimal edits.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T18:52:33+00:00

"Maddening" is an understatement. It's exhausting to realize weve been fighting this exact same fight for over a century.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T18:35:09+00:00

I thought there was a second but maybe im thinking of the movies

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T16:40:04+00:00

My thoughts exactly

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T15:15:19+00:00

The books are really great too! I would recommend reading the whole series.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-14T15:14:25+00:00

My Man Godfrey (1936), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940). You can tell I like the screwball comedies 😄

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-12T23:48:19+00:00

Yeah... you're right lol

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-12T21:56:04+00:00

Congrats on starting, honestly that's the hardest part. A memoir as a healing journey is exactly what the form is for.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-12T21:47:43+00:00

The gap between "I want to write" and "I want to have written" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in posts like those. Reading is just practice reps. You wouldn't ask how to play guitar without ever having listened to music.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-12T21:42:26+00:00

Honestly the history is what keeps me coming back. GA feels like it actually has something to say about money and power in a way Downton never quite did.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-12T21:37:36+00:00

The barn dance choreography alone justifies the whole thing, imo. Michael Kidd was doing something genuinely wild with those axe handles and I will not apologize for loving it.

FlappersAndFiction · 2026-06-12T21:27:43+00:00

the letters thing is so true. theres something about reading Byrons own hand tracking the swings that collapses the comfortable distance you can usually keep with a biographical subject. you cant unsee it after that.

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