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"I have a really hard time rating books poorly because I’m a firm believer that there’s some valuable lesson to be found in every story even if it’s not your cup of tea. However, I found myself having a visceral reaction throughout this book. I don’t "
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"I could've saved time and read a laundry list of cliches instead of reading this book.
Lessons in Chemistry was rife with issues. A non-exhaustive list: 🧪Elizabeth is a SCIENTIST in the 1950s but reads like someone time traveled back from 2022 just to" Read more of this review » |
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"This book is mind-numbingly bad. I really do not see what everybody writing rave reviews are seeing. So, I'm a chemist and this main character is exactly the type of chemist that we make fun of - a pretentious snob that non-ironically calls household"
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“Breakups and divorces, disappointments
and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I
began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just
practice for the eternal separation between the
living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the
dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left
behind.”
― Still Alive
and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I
began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just
practice for the eternal separation between the
living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the
dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left
behind.”
― Still Alive
“I have always been good at lying because the lies I tell are goals I haven’t committed to.”
― Still Alive
― Still Alive
“We clung to New York like it could give us
purpose, make our lives bigger and more
significant by proxy. Or maybe we just wanted an
otherwhere with fewer ghosts and more chances
to rise and fail.”
― Still Alive
purpose, make our lives bigger and more
significant by proxy. Or maybe we just wanted an
otherwhere with fewer ghosts and more chances
to rise and fail.”
― Still Alive
“Breakups and divorces, disappointments
and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I
began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just
practice for the eternal separation between the
living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the
dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left
behind.”
― Still Alive
and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I
began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just
practice for the eternal separation between the
living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the
dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left
behind.”
― Still Alive
“She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag.
Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so
captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to
believe”
― Still Alive
Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so
captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to
believe”
― Still Alive
“What is worn ironically among us is ambition; what is concomitant is the surety of our imposture, imposters, in the darkness, and I smile at the wood-hung ceiling, and I forget I should still be nervous about the night.”
― Still Alive
― Still Alive
