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Borders mentioned 💔💔 Oh to be back in 2001 when a mega chain bookstore was the dominant threat to independent book sellers

from everything I've heard, this is a bonkers place to begin with Ali Hazelwood, but book club duty calls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

really enjoying this!! but alas it must go back to the library. i'll be back for you Six of Crows!

we love a magic system that gives both Full Metal Alchemist and Overlong Excel Function

i am already locked in - have i been a repressed fantasy reader all this time??

this is the kind of book where i go looking for things to deep clean in my apartment so i have an excuse to keep listening to it. so so good

20 (short) chapters in and swans, harmonica players, and all 20-year-olds have already caught strays

Is fun though! The narration reminds me of the narration in A Series of Unfortunate Events, so if you're into that 👀

"When the fourth cab passes you,
think of 5th grade. Mrs. Capperson
holding
all the boys in for recess to tell us if we
don't
get tattoos, grow out our hair, pierce our
ears,
or sag our pants everything will be all
right.

When the fifth cab passes you,
know everything is not all right."

"not here for the right reasons" mentioned

girls will see this and say hell yeah

((shoutout to the prompt new item processing of the seattle public library!))

i see why ang lee cut the third-act frasier-style miscommunication subplot out of the movie lol

“Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o’clock, you hardly think what you’re going to feed the corpse for dinner.”

“Asparagus is in season,” said Francis helpfully.”