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I only have like 2 hours left of the audiobook but I cant listen to it in public anymore and it is so frustrating.

Halfway! Still have 7 hours left of audio 😅

The only issue I have with the audio is that there are 4 characters that it switches between. Now that all the characters are starting to overlap it is getting slightly easier to follow.

Yes! Freckles are amazing! And I love mine and I am so happy to have a book not cover up the character's freckles. It is something small but it made me happy

"I don't want your hope. I want your panic. I want you to feel the fear I do. Every day. I want you to act."

If it wasnt so late I would stay up and finish this

Going from talking about literally chaining books to their shelves to how Amazon figuratively chains books to a Kindle is such a great move on the author's part.

"I mean I have to write a essay about Alexander Hamilton and I dont Sven know what he looks like"

I actually laughed out loud at this line. Hearing Lin Manuel Miranda say this was the best

"I tried not to feel intimidated when classroom conversation was dominated by male students, which it often was. Hearing them, I realized that they weren't at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different."
Just need to remember that last part, not smarter just louder.

""I've had veggies. These little bitty peppers."
"They dont count when they're that little."
"Yeah, they do. If babies can count as humans when they're little, veggies can count as veggies when they're little.""

I one thousand percent agree with this. Those little peppers on pizza totally count

They kept Shang saying that Mulan fights good. I am way too excited about this

"Secrets are curious things. They are flimsy and easily broken. For this reason, they prefer to remain hidden. A fact, on the other hand, is strong and powerful. It's proven. Unlike a secret, it's out there for everyone to see and know. And that can make it more terrifying than even the deepest, darkest secret."

"I was more like an anvil that comes plummeting down on a cartoon character's head. I fell, like a graceful barbell, right on top of Neel."

This is just amazing. This would be how I would fall too

"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."

Even in the first book without a good library they talk about the merits of them. These are personal libraries but still

While the Baudelaires are having a terrible time in life, the bright spot in every book has been a library. Books take you away from wherever you are to someplace nicer. And I thank the author for knowing that and reinforcing it throughout this series

"Plenty of lexicographers thought that when Harry Potter series first debuted, it wasn't going to give us much in the way of lasting coinages, because it was a fantasy series. And now we see the word "muggle," used unironically to refer to a usually provincial person outside a particular culture or group..."

I'm reading this while I am wearing my Ravenclaw cardigan and using a Ravenclaw bookmark.

"Soldiers do not make a place safe, Isabella. They only make it less dangerous."

"You mean words don't just appear ex nihilo in the drawer they're supposed to be in? Some slob in a beige office in Massachusetts is the one who decides what a word is? "

Those lines may have shocked some people.

I think I'm in love. This book is already amazing. Also, they say ink-nosed to basically call someone a bookworm and I know it is supposed to be an insult but I kind of love it. And I would also marry someone for their library

"I remember telling him far too much about myself, a habit that would only increase as I aged."
Good to know Carrie Fisher has always talked too much, makes me happy to see that it never changed.