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“Having an Asian American with a pixie cut on the desk was a very good look for the gallery.” uh???

steadily chipping away at my will to live with every page i turn

no one: how big of a red flag do you want to be?

bj ballentine: y e s

hello friends! 🫶🏻 please drop your favorite books you’ve read this year in the comments, i’ve been collecting too many 1-star reads lately 🧍🏻‍♀️

it’s too early yet to have already figured out the entire trajectory of this novel up to its inevitable conclusion… right?

to dnf or not dnf… to dnf or not dnf… to dnf or—

oh, this is so messy.........

“Tears and laughter come at the same time. There it is. A hit. A rush. A brief blessed tug on the gossamer.”

putting any- and everything else on hold, only for leigh bardugo

rereading jane austen novels: one of the greatest pleasures in my life

“He smiled and it was the saddest thing she’d ever seen.” not the pipravi angst, i can’t do this–

me, blushing giggling kicking my feet over ravi taking pip’s hand? more likely than you think

“Pip, who didn’t run for anything, ran to catch [Ravi].” oh, my allergies are acting up again–

wait, i just realised this book has a prequel… should i read it first, or–

taking a break from this… collection of words… today, because i’d like to mantain my sanity as well as my will to live. but at least i’m almost done :’)

why did i pick this up and why am i still reading……… i’m in agony

nathaniel loves sori so much ❤️‍🩹

this was quite cute up until now, but i’m really not here for the unnecessary insecure-condescending-toxic-woman-portrayal

the way violet manages to swoon over [redacted], all while her life quite literally hangs in the balance… and time and again, too. truly remarkable

just found out that this is only book 1 out of 5 (five) in this series. five.

what even—

for being a thriller this is… not particularly thrilling?

“That’s the wonderful thing about you Asian women,” he went on. “You never seem to age.”

absolutely sickening

“Now that you have stopped bitching for a minute, can you please unlock the door?”

the male lead did not just say that to the woman he’s supposed to be falling in love with—

genuine question: why are elena armas’s romances so (unnecessarily) long?

”I believe in you. I believe you should and will have everything you’ve ever wanted, if you’re not too scared to go after it.“

”Life, I’d learned, is a revolving door. Most things that come into it only stay awhile.” — (i am not okay.)

“Our interactions with our caregivers convey what is safe and what is dangerous: whom we can count on and who will let us down; what we need to do to get our needs met. This information is embodied in the warp and woof of our brain circuitry and forms the template of how we think of ourselves and the world around us. These inner maps are remarkably stable across time.”

“I wanted, in that moment, to give him the entire world.”