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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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Love on the Brain

by Ali Hazelwood (Goodreads Author)

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Monika said: " This just ain't it, unfortunately.

What I liked:
+focus on science careers, especially women in STEM, the whole standardised testing criticism
+mention of hate for Elon Musk
+MC's research assistant and her own romance
+veganism I guess(?)
+quick resolut This just ain't it, unfortunately.

What I liked:
+focus on science careers, especially women in STEM, the whole standardised testing criticism
+mention of hate for Elon Musk
+MC's research assistant and her own romance
+veganism I guess(?)
+quick resolution of the 3rd act conflict

What I didn't:
-miscommunication trope
-constant reminders that he's so tall and muscular and fit and she's so very tiny, small and fainting constantly. Ali Hazelwood has used that constellation in every one of her novellas and The Love Hypothesis as well, and she is not the only author who loves to use it, but I'm over it.
-Bee's obsession with Marie Curie. Just too much. I had my kindle count, well over 60 mentions and anecdotes. I love Marie Curie, but if I wanted to know this much about her, I'd buy a book specifically about her.
-Levi's obsession with Bee, are you telling me you broke up with someone and never again showed interest in anyone else because you had a crush on someone 10 years ago, even when it didn't look like anything would happen
-the writing. It's cool they're vegan, but do you need to explicitly tell me the leather in his car is faux? Faux leather doesn't smell good and makes your ass sweat. Also everything is ™: Cute Guy™, Handsome Guy™, Sexy Guy ™, WurstFest™, CockCluster™, SausageReferencing™, HostileCompanionableSilence™. Again, I had my kindle count and that writing style is employed over 40 times. That's more than once every 10 pages on average. There are other overused phrases I can't be bothered to quote now. But they're there. I usually really don't care about the writing in my romances so much
-Bee is a feminist, which I love, but it sometimes fades into hating on men and objectifying them. Like when she imagines her Twitter friend a "five-eight nerd with a beer belly and male-pattern baldness" or wants someone to write her "a report on how men are stupider because their brains have lower neural densities". Also, "What do dudes even think about all the time? The Dow Jones. MILF porn. Their next date." That's pretty sexist, Bee, and to quote a movie from the same franchise as your favourite movie, "you've become the very thing you swore to destroy".
-enemies to lovers in all honours, but Bee demands Levi to be professional and civil in his presumed dislike towards her, but acts petty and unprofessional towards him all the time. Also she insists he hates, despises, dislikes her even after he's told her multiple times he doesn't. Get a hint. ...more "

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Emma

by Jane Austen

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Monika’s Notes & Highlights

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Holiday Romance (Fitzpatrick Christmas, #1) by Catherine Walsh

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“I can make pasta, garlic bread, and cheesy garlic bread.” “Ah, the three food groups.”

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Anne of Green Gables (Annotated)

by L.M. Montgomery

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Monika’s Quotes

“Humans are so ill-equipped for peace.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“If I can't love you at Times Square then I don't deserve you at a used bookstore.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

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“You’re not a vacation, and you’re not the answer to my career crisis, but when I’m in a crisis or I’m sick or I’m sad, you’re the only thing I want. And when I’m happy, you make me so much happier. I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I’m feeling, I want you next to me. You’re home to me, Alex. And I think I’m that for you too.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

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“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

tags: prejudice

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“Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

tags: kindness

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