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i don’t want this book to end 🥺

we must never forget the author and her family are $$$ extremely wealthy $$$

why does this book feel longer than the bible

plot feels pretty predictable atm but might as well see it thru at this rate 🫥🤧

i am honestly STRUGGLiNG to finish this

starting this again as an audiobook lol

DNF @ 9% idk just couldn’t get into it felt way too YA for me😔

i can’t lie friends this book is so boring but i’m gonna finish it bc i need to know the root of ethan’s trauma and fear of commitment 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😃😃😃😃😃😃

i am confused ... the author has all these really strong stances and definitions of "toxic empathy" but then uses the same rhetoric to frame her views and says you'd be a Bad Christian if you disagree .....

i’m so tired of the word “mate”

my head hurts

the plot is taking soooo long plsssss

rin got daddy issues

“if you think, “i don’t like it but someone else will,” you are not making art for yourself. you’ve found yourself in the business of commerce, which is fine; it just may not be art. there’s no bright line between the two. the more formulaic your creation is, the more it hugs the shore of what’s been popular, the less like art it’s likely to be”

“because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.

the objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. so we can better make thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work.”

so boring i’m speed reading to finish this asap

“i always think that when we’re quiet, we’re agreeing to be harmless to each other. that we’re just sharing the same space and letting each other exist exactly as we are, and neither of us would hurt or upset the other one” 🥺

perhaps I will try again and read it instead of audiobook it bc he narrates and just the way he talks and reads aloud makes it feel like he’s yelling at me 😭😭😭

Finally starting this and I am SCARED