x what i think
it took SO long to gel with yesteryear, in part because of my bias against the casual prose, and expecting more from someone who literally went to bennington writing seminars (michael dumanis, et al, why and how did you let this happen). BUT when i gaslit myself into ignoring it and stopped expecting Literary Fiction instead of a fun twisty read, i enjoyed it a bit more. it's still lowkey a slog to get through, but i'm progressing a little every day or so. also, how the fuck did this get optioned BEFORE it was published?!? extreme stroke of luck tbh. we can all dream.

x about the book
natalie, a tradwife influencer, goes "back in time" (well...) to 1855. that's literally the entire plot. and she's like mentally ill or something i don't know. a lot of my frustration comes from envy and i'm trying to purge it out of my system because it's not just her finding massive success with casual stupid prose!! dare i say stephen king did the same thing and it irritates me!! sometimes you want writers to get an overnight hit from something "deeper," more sophisticated, but that's also not the world we live in anymore thanks to stephen king and his sleighrides. i liked carrie a lot tho



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