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“Manicured suburb with SAT prep schools and […] civically unengaged Asians all around me” I am listening to the audiobook but I NEED the physical book !!! THIS is why I minored in history!! I miss college

Painfully relatable which is why I’m dragging my feet reading this

I know it seems like I’m reading too many books, but I swear I NEEDED a novel!!! Poetry, audiobook memoir, and nonfiction writer’s guide were NOT hitting unfortunately I’m a novel lover first and foremost!!

Also I love this so far I keep laughing out loud and the MC is relatable :’)

As someone who doesn’t follow influencers on Instagram, I’m weirded out by the generalization that all pics are filtered these days… That is not my experience… It’s way less common for me to see Instagram photos where someone is clearly using a feature-altering filter… but tbf this *is* a book about the beauty world

AAAAAAA FORCED PROXIMITY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I keep taking pauses from this book to cringe. What do you mean “motherfluffer” and “for cripes’ sake” 🙄

Audiobooking it bc I couldn’t find it at a bookstore and god I missed math 🥺🥰

Hello, old coping mechanism/escapism, my old friend

I started reading the appendix bc it’s referenced on this page and uhhhhh I definitely need the ebook because I already have thoughts that I MUST write down. I NEED to highlight and annotate !!!!!!!!

The hardcover became available at my local library hoorayyy also there’s so much mention of bodily excretions… am i weirded out bc i’m not the target demographic of this book or is it actually weird

Libby hold became available today 🕺💃

My sister used to insist that I was a child of Aphrodite because she called dibs on Athena. But this made me realize I’m actually a child of Hebe !!

Audiobook bc neither the ebook nor the physical book is immediately available to me 😔😔

Why does Dickens keep rambling about each new character he introduces… Why do I suddenly have to learn every tiny detail... I just want the story to progress. Suddenly I completely understand why some people hate him. The story was just getting juicy but now it’s boring again 😒

I recently binge watched the Disney+ show and I was craving the PJO world but this is the only ebook available on Libby even with my three library cards 🥲

I recently binge watched the Disney+ show and I was craving the PJO world but this is the only ebook available on Libby even with my three library cards 🥲

The blurb makes this sound boring, but it’s actually pretty entertaining so far

“I can’t even right now.”
“Oh my god. I cannot.”
You cannot what?? How are these sentences in the narration??? My journal entries are more articulate than this. Leaning towards DNFing.

I do remember seeing Meddy say something like this before, but I excused it because I liked the Aunties. But three (as far as I can tell) chapters in a row without them is really highlighting this book’s flaws.

This book’s too full of misery for me to really enjoy. I need frequent breaks. Excellent storytelling tho.

This book has me screaming, not out of joy, but out of irritation. I don’t hate the book. I hate the main characters.

They speak of torture while they torture me with their toxicity and emotional immaturity!!!!!! I can’t believe I have to keep reading this before the year ends for a reading challenge.

I don’t like it. I feel v uncomfortable in the world that Brontë built in this book. It’s too dark and depressing.

But I want the Fall Vibes award to complete the beta reading challenge. I am reading this against my will.

I paused this book to read two library books and now I have no recollection of who the characters are 🤡

Oooohhh now this is niiiiiiiiice!! A writer who’s clearly skilled at her craft.

This solidifies my opinion that the last book I read was so poorly written it read like a children’s book. Maybe YA if we’re being generous. But this current read? An adult fiction novel appropriately written for adults.

This is so boring to me but I’m fighting the urge to DNF it bc I need it for the challenge faves category of the beta reading challenge

You’re telling me that she’s a chemist who saw the
“DO NOT ENTER
EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS
NO ADMITTANCE
KEEP OUT” sign and still opened the door??? Huh??????? Idk about chem but in physics you could become blind if you pulled that stunt. I’m irritated.

(I don’t wanna lose my progress)

The narrator still hasn’t met Gatsby -_-