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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
by Emily Austin
“Sometimes when I’m driving, I think about veering into traffic. If I stand near the edge of anything, I think about stepping off. I can’t take a pill, clean with bleach, or use a knife without it occurring to me that I could end it”.
This book checks all of the boxes for me. I laughed out loud a ton listening to the audio and cringed plenty of times when it got too real. The story is all about Gilda, her anxiety-driven decisionmaking, and the wretched coil of existence that she can’t stop pondering. She is hyperfocused on mortality and what it means to be a person; she’s never not consumed by racing thoughts about her place on this floating rock. She is also a hypochondriac and has visited the ER so many times that even the janitor knows her on a first-name basis. But she is also painfully self-aware, and in an attempt to get help, she stumbles into a Catholic church advertising free therapy and accidentally ends up with a job, assuming the identity of both a heterosexual and a believer (you’ll come to realize she has no interest in either of these things).
Gilda is one of my favorite fictional characters ever, and her mind is just as entertaining as it is horrifying to be inside of. Emily Austin for sure gets it and I am all-in on whatever she puts out next. I loved this book SO much.
FFO: feeling personally attacked, laughing until you cry, crying until you laugh, self-awareness of your neuroses, contemporary existentialism <3
CWs: Suicide, addiction, mental illness, death, grief, homophobia
This book checks all of the boxes for me. I laughed out loud a ton listening to the audio and cringed plenty of times when it got too real. The story is all about Gilda, her anxiety-driven decisionmaking, and the wretched coil of existence that she can’t stop pondering. She is hyperfocused on mortality and what it means to be a person; she’s never not consumed by racing thoughts about her place on this floating rock. She is also a hypochondriac and has visited the ER so many times that even the janitor knows her on a first-name basis. But she is also painfully self-aware, and in an attempt to get help, she stumbles into a Catholic church advertising free therapy and accidentally ends up with a job, assuming the identity of both a heterosexual and a believer (you’ll come to realize she has no interest in either of these things).
Gilda is one of my favorite fictional characters ever, and her mind is just as entertaining as it is horrifying to be inside of. Emily Austin for sure gets it and I am all-in on whatever she puts out next. I loved this book SO much.
FFO: feeling personally attacked, laughing until you cry, crying until you laugh, self-awareness of your neuroses, contemporary existentialism <3
CWs: Suicide, addiction, mental illness, death, grief, homophobia