Part 2:

5. Solstices – Louis MacNeice (2/8/25) ♥♥♥
6. Dread – Ai (2/8/25) ♥♥♥♥
7. Better than Before – Gretchen Rubin (2/9/25) ♥♥♥
8. Crosstalk – Connie Willis (2/12/25) ♥♥♥
9. Gulping’s Recital – Russell Edson (2/22/25) ♥♥♥♥
10. Your Kingdom – Eleni Sikelianos (2/23/25) ♥♥♥

Still going strong...

:( Why do you feel that way?

I had to read that book in high school. There was no discussion about the grossness of the relationship.

Ooh! Or The Last Starfighter!

Oh, are you trying to get us to guess the movie YOU saw?

Here are my guesses:

WarGames
The Boy Who Could Fly
The Peanut Butter Solution
Not Quite Human

Am I close?

Nope! I remember the title of every movie I've seen.

Here's my hot take: The only people who invest the time of writing a "dark romance" are people who have trauma they're working through or are otherwise "stuck" in that adolescent POV. You're never going to find a dark romance written like an adult because we realize it's bullshit.

Stop hurting me this way.

That verse alone is why I can't stomach the OT/NT dichotomy a lot of Christians try to push. The OT God wasn't ONLY fire and brimstone. If you're having a hard time making sense of him, that's on YOU!

One of my favorite moments in Genesis is when God saw that Leah wasn't loved, so he gave her a child. Like, for real? This God that turned people to salt for looking backwards also feels sorry for this unloved lady? Wild!