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The translator really did their big one with this

Thank you Italians

Bro the bell rang before I read the ending I'm actually going to go crazy

Never in my life has a work day gone so fast. I'm racing against the clock here.

"Borrowing" this from the teacher I'm subbing for (theres copies on her desk because the kids are reading it), I'm only here for one day, lets see what I can do.

Main character is unreliable as fuck but since I'm in his thoughts, I'm like: YEAH FUCK THAT GUY, like bro chill

We're so back, reading slump is so over, I love when characters named Victor toy with the limits of human knowledge, they should kiss, I know they're not going to.

She keeps name dropping people and because this is by THE Patti Smith I feel like I'm supposed to know everyone but I'm not.

So much happens in this book at all times. I feel like I've read 50 pages and I've read 18.

are they lovers?

worse

I'm genuinely so impressed with how much of the book they were able to adapt. Like this like 95% scene for scene.

I just passed the tuna melt scene and I'm going to be honest, we really needed the addition of Shane running down the stairs after the encounter because that adds a lot of what Shane is feeling. I think by having Shane just leave like he did in the show leaves a lot of room for ambiguity. Like yeah we got that it was too domestic, but this paralleled with "we didn't even kiss" would've done more for his character.

I seem to be making a habit of trying not to cry at work.

Hollanov is in desperate need of lock-in pills

The way this book describes Ilya's diet bothers me. I don't care if its for comedic effect. Shredded ass hockey player and it only describes him eating Mcgriddles and cream cheese Nutella bagels. It gives me the same feeling as when men talk about their calorie deficits being 3500 calories a day. Plot twist, this account is actually Shane Hollander's burner account. Don't piss me off.

They're killing me.

Now we’re cooking

When you would die for homie and you kiss homie and you would probs kill yourself without homie, but thats ohana.

I am begging classical authors to invest in an editor

Mmmm I’ll have two orders of yearn and a side of magic please

I fear I just fucked myself because I started reading Holdens ramblings in a Trump impression and now I can’t stop.

Things that still reign true: Holden is insufferable.

Things that I can rationalize as an adult: He's also a grieving teenager who is trying to prove himself to be worthy of the things he thinks make a good/cool/likable person. So much so that half the narration is him lying to the reader and calling things phony when he doesn't know who he is.

I do feel for him. Just not enough yet.