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“it was spring & i could smell it // how did i not know those flowers were already memory, how i thought i could smell them, boarding the plane // why did i never consider how different spring could smell, feel, elsewhere?”

idk how this is even a contest

i have learned to put up w a lot of sally rooney’s syntax and punctuation choices in this but i am kinda drawing the line at “sore his eyes and hot he felt”

why am i always reading ivan’s chapters from margaret’s pov

how do these guys not all have severe liver dysfunction

i think everyone should’ve j sat down and talked but that’s j me

i can already tell these ppl r insane

why is this book so. quirky

too many names

it’s happening💀 goal is 5 books a day. highlights so far:
- “dogface” as an insult
- threat speech: “this will be my great oath: someday a yearning for achilles will come upon [the greeks], every man; then nothing will save you, for all your grief, when at the hands of hector dying men fall in their multitude; and you will rip the heart within you, raging that paid no honor to the best of the acheans.”

man. she needs help

reading too thick books simultaneously feels like a full time job. never liked reading multiple books at once. anyways these characters r crazy,.., compels me tho

this is truly written in grueling detail, it’s like watching a 4k slow mo empire state jenga building fall and i’m only on part 1

this book is so fat i didn’t make a denT. surprisingly readable!

more than a little crazy rn

starting this im so beyond stressed rn, i saw a chapter title about power sur eater WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO POWER SUR EATER HUH pls resolve his character well pls pls and let me finalize my opinion on him, also pls have a scene of lee groveling at annie’s feet for his abandonment in flamefall before they make out vigorously, THEN let ixion die a terrible painful death, THEN let delogriff live happily every after

the way this is reading as class in america

i kinda didn’t want book 2 to start like this i’m exhausted

i wouod just like to say, respectfully, that i am absolutely bonkers crazy person insane rn

i know i’m reading another dragon book it’s a phase, but i had to obliterate the Other book from memory immediately!!!! and i’m happy to say that this one is serving!!!!! maybe bc i’m coming off literal garbage, but this one is actually well written!! a lil tired of the love.. square? but this book is magnificent in the way it shows how deeply trauma lingers, the sadness and emotional conflict of unlearning