
Book Club, The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
Chapter 4, THE CHATTERING CLASSES
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Chapter 4, THE CHATTERING CLASSES

And straight up hoes

They will mog you in every single category except originality

The man who did not look in the mirror

Chapter 4, GOOD EVENING, FELLOW AMERICANS

Cosmetic procedures, narcissism, and the fear underneath it all

Specifically lesbian

Neither heaven nor hell but a state of knowing

Chapter 3, WAITING FOR THE DOUGH

Ariana Grande, the poisonous princess

Obsession (2025), Wish Upon (2017), and Wishmaster (1997)