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Jan 14, 2019 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
This thread reads like one of those r/relationships posts where two paragraphs in you’re like, yea, obviously he’s cheating on you, throw the motherfucker out already.
What, you went through with the wedding? What, it’s been two years and he’s still texting her after midnight? Time to bail and start healing. It’s gonna take years.
(Specifically, it reminds me of the one where the woman’s fiancé was for sure banging his sister. Kind of a wild conclusion, but a shit ton of evidence paving the way. #peetape)

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Dec 26, 2021
In the name of holiday cheer, here are four books that made me laugh a whole lot in 2021: “The Good Lord Bird” by James McBride, “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer, “Straight Man” by Richard Russo, and “Wow, No Thank You.” by Samantha Irby.
If I’d known what was inside “The Good Lord Bird,” I wouldn’t have let it sit on my shelves since I picked it up years ago. All I knew was that it was a National Book Award winner that dealt with slavery (I assumed prestigious, heavy). I didn’t realize it was an epic comedy.
It’s about a scrappy boy born into slavery who joins up with John Brown despite a strong preference for self-preservation. The tone is madcap and delightful, and the portrait of Brown feels canonical. There’s also a hilariously unflattering depiction of Frederick Douglass.
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Dec 25, 2021
Three great novels about con artists: “A Beautiful Crime” by @christobollen, “Pretty Things” by @janelleb, and “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters. All juicy, character-driven, and energetically plotted, with a lot to say about money and class (feels like a hallmark of the con novel).
“A Beautiful Crime” is also romantic, about two young men in love in Venice, where they’ve arrived to swindle a very deserving target with counterfeit heirloom silver that once belonged to a spendthrift dissipated WASP.
“Pretty Things” is about a vengeful grifter and a depressed influencer circling each other in a massive estate in Lake Tahoe. Includes at least one plot twist of the best kind: gutting, inevitable, written in the characters’ DNA.
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Dec 24, 2021
I didn't write much this year, but two authors who got me kind of revved up to try again were @blacklionking73 and @jordan_harper. Their books are delicious, sharply written and hard-hitting and also so much fucking fun. Read them if you like a novel that MOVES.
I read "Blacktop Wasteland" and "Razorblade Tears" back to back and S.A. Cosby is just undeniable. Twice in a row, he's found stories with the kind of roaring engine novelists are lucky to find once, and then he wrote the shit out of every scene.
If you haven't read "She Rides Shotgun" by Jordan Harper, why continue to deprive yourself? It's a run-for-your-life L.A. novel about an 11-year-old girl and her fresh-out-of-prison father outmaneuvering the Aryan Brotherhood. Non-stop action and also a teddy bear sidekick.
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Dec 24, 2021
I read both "Fates and Furies" and "Matrix" by Lauren Groff this year (and gave the new one a 4/4 review for @USATODAYBooks). I liked "Arcadia" when I read it years ago, but she just keeps getting better.
usatoday.com/story/entertai…
"Fates and Furies" is gorgeously written, with intricate character studies. There are shards of that novel (the stolen artwork hidden under the stairs, when Lotto realizes that his genius partner's composition is all wrong, to name a couple) that really stuck with me.
Also, kind of random, but I read "Fingersmith" shortly after (more on that book later) and wondered if some of Mathilde's DNA came from Maud Lilly (the cold uncle, the Japanese pornography).
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Dec 22, 2021
I blurbed some excellent crime fiction this year. Too many titles to fit in this tweet, in fact, but please see below for some sweet sweet recs on new and upcoming releases.
"The Missing Hours" by @juliadahl: "Claudia Castro is a vivid, sympathetic character, young and vulnerable but with an adamantine core. I was so invested in her story (and in the destruction of her enemies) that I burned through it in two days."
"We Were Never Here": "@andibartz takes a friendship with boundary issues and adds an extra-special ingredient—the permanent, secret alliance of two people who have gotten away with murder...an observant, suspenseful, and deeply scary novel."
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Dec 21, 2021
This is kind of embarrassing, and I know so many people have spent so much of this pandemic alone, but not only is this quarantine the longest I’ve been away from my son, it’s also already, after two days, the longest I’ve been away from other people in my entire life.
I’m trying to think if there have been any other times, but I’ve always either lived with family or roommates. When my husband travels, I invite friends over. I’m trying to enjoy this alone time and the novelty and freedom from responsibility are helping, but it also sucks.
One minute texting my parent friends they should be jealous (hey @sergioperezLA, you should still be jealous), next minute crying on the phone to my actual mommy. Seems largely dependent on whether Drag Race is playing in the background, so I guess I’ll turn that back on.
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