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The Romance Revival

by Christina Lauren (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 17, 2026 04:52PM

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Beautiful World, Where Are You

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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Michaela Edson said: " “Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it’s the very reason I root for us to survive- because we are so stupid about each other.”

Have finally settled on a good old 5 sta “Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it’s the very reason I root for us to survive- because we are so stupid about each other.”

Have finally settled on a good old 5 stars for this one. It was just so, so enjoyable, as all of Sally Rooney’s work is for me. I loved Eileen & Alice’s emails to each other, letting us know their inner thoughts, the depth of their friendship, the trust in each other. I loved when the emails started angry or frustrated, and then somewhere along the way they talked themselves down, and as always, the emails ended with this great love for the other. Incredible and true depiction of friendship. I am so deeply in love and awe of Eileen. I feel so close to her, like she sees things inside of me that I didn’t know were there. I say this every time I finish a Rooney novel!!! I also loved that this one didn’t have a very clear direction. The day to day details, making it feel as though these events are unfolding before our eyes, but they are inevitable, we can only watch, not touch. All we can do is root for them to have the happiest endings possible, and experience it from deep in our souls.

“I put between myself and my parents such a gulf of sophistication that it’s impossible for them to touch me now or to reach me at all. And I look back across that gulf, not with a sense of guilt or loss, but with relief and satisfaction. Am I better than they are? Certainly not, although maybe luckier. But I am different; and I don’t understand them very well, and I can’t live with them or draw them into my inner world.”

Chapter 23, Eileen’s sister’s wedding, was simply one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had reading a book. It honestly took my breath away. I had a similar experience when I first watched the wedding scene in Crazy Rich Asians, where suddenly I was so overwhelmed with emotion I had tears in my eyes. And not just the regular emotion you’d expect like awe, happiness, satisfaction, but others that felt more similar to grief. Any time I see two people get married, it is the most human I think I have ever felt, and this chapter captured that feeling in me. Sneaking in to Eileen’s parent’s minds, how those moments called memories and all of the fleeting emotions, a feeling you can’t describe but can only know it’s there. And Eileen & Simon’s bond and understanding. So human, so indescribable.

“All of that. And their phone calls, the messages they wrote to one another, their jealousies, the years of looks, suppressed smiles, their dictionary of little touches. All the stories they had told about each other, about themselves. This much was in their eyes and passed between them … Tenderly, it seemed almost painfully, they smiled at one another, saying nothing, and their questions were the same, am I the one you think about, when we made love were you happy, have I hurt you, do you love me, will you always.” ...more "

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"“The events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content. So when we watch characters in films… we naturally want to know at what exact point they are doing these things, relative to the cataclysmic historic events that structure our present sense of reality. There is no longer a neutral setting”" — Jul 17, 2024 12:27PM

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House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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"Im really thinking about how Feyre killed a wyrm while she was still HUMAN like that is my GIRLLLL" — Jun 29, 2026 11:01AM

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Michaela’s Notes & Highlights

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Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1) by Callie Hart

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A shadow falls across Yvelia. It will alter all it touches. You would rather remain here, knowing that suffering and hardship loom on the horizon? That sacrifices will need to be made?

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“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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“I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't afford expensive presents and they didn't want us to think we weren't as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all sorts of fancy toys under the tree that were supposedly left by Santa Claus.
Dad had lost his job at the gypsum, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took each one of us kids out into the desert night one by one.
"Pick out your favorite star", Dad said.
"I like that one!" I said.
Dad grinned, "that's Venus", he said. He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was constant and stars twinkled because their light pulsed.
"I like it anyway" I said.
"What the hell," Dad said. "It's Christmas. You can have a planet if you want."
And he gave me Venus.

Venus didn't have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth's, except it was super hot-about 500 degrees or more. "So," Dad said, "when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone might want to move to Venus to get warm. And they'll have to get permission from your descendants first.
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

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