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“The grown-ups are very stranger,” the little prince said to himself, as he continued on his journey.

“Apple bobbing for autism”

I’m hooked

Look at me finally leaving reviews for the books I read… new year new meeeee😂

Jk I had a little birdie tell me that if I wanted to receive ARCs I gotta leave reviews 🫡 plus it helps me exercise that part of my brain I haven’t used since grade school!

mmc is a chess grandmaster virgin … its so common and basic bc he’s a chess player but why is it kinda hot in this context

“If it didn’t repeat, it echoed”

Speaking about her own motherhood and her mother’s experience 😩 I’m sure a lot of us mamas feel this exact way. Bittersweet!

“Most women in chess decide to skip these events and compete in women-only tournaments”

This sentence alone is driving me to search locally for women-only chess tournaments

Ya ok I’m listening to multiple audiobooks to catch up on my reading goal so what
*me talking to my enemy which is myself*

“I thought we were having a metaphorical dick-measuring competition, only the length was a measure of childhood trauma.”

5 star line for readers with unhinged humor

“Sometimes wanting love wasn’t about a desire for romance. Sometimes wanting love was about being tired”

Tired together 🤝🏼

Tis the season

“Welcome to Cambridge Alice. We’re going to take apart the world.”

Babel mentioned!

“I couldn’t find any translation of the Dunhuang cave texts.”
“There aren’t any. You just don’t have any Asian languages.”

🔥🥵🥊

“He sighs softly. ‘Probably why I fell in love with him.”

👁️👄👁️

Having so much fun !! 🧙🏼‍♀️

Chapter 1 starting off with a quote from Diddy (I’m listening to the audiobook so I may have misheard but idk)

‘One sentence puzzles me: The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man’

‘Arne-Sayles began with the idea that the Anicents had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back’

The two girls and the two guys relating on their own being in their environment is so comforting and yet really sad

So easy to digest and yet such a powerful perceptive. Enjoying it even more now that there’s a second chance love trope 🥹