Last year, I read Exalted, and described it to a friend as "kinda trashy litfic, like a Millennial Marcy Dermansky," so when I grabbed the ARC of Perfume and Pain and saw the Marcy Dermansky quote on the cover, I thought "yup, fuckin nailed it."

I loved Astrid Dahl, loved that she wrote the same books Anna Dorn has written, was so sad as the percentage of book read kept getting higher far too fast, and time left in the book kept getting lower. Did not want this book to be over, but could not make myself stop reading. I'm highly allergic to most perfumes, but spent the whole time I was reading (happily) overwhelmed by olfactory hues. 

I highlighted so many passages and cackled to myself so many times that my youngest and my husband kept asking what was so funny (yes, I'm one of those queer women Astrid wouldn't want in her writing group). How to explain the Patricia Highsmith? Or that I'm definitely not a quiet person, though I no longer have a goodreads account? And have it be anything other than a barely hinged non sequitur?

brb, falling down a Messy Women Trashy LitFic rabbithole. 

Also, that cover is gorgeous (and I'm not just saying that bc I'm obsessed with pink book covers).