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J'avance doucement mais sûrement

It's tiiiiime

Why do we only learn the main character's name in chapter 8 or did I miss something

Im struggling

I love JLA but nothing is happening in this book

Bon c'est cute mais il se se passe pas grand chose

Ils se sont embrouillés à cause d'une part de quiche quand même

"Good-bye, Katherine, with you thick glasses, and the one eye that looks at you sideways and the other that stares at you head on. Good-bye to your querulous voice and crabbed caviling which hides only, as I know, a deep and pathetic loneliness. Born of lack of your own kind, born of no one to talk to... (...)"

And she keeps roasting her for several lines
I've never seen someone insult someone else so beautifully

Trying the horror genre for the first time. The dedication is already scaring me. Great start!

Je suis en train de le dévorer

7 hours of train lets goooo 🚂

I really want to NRN this book. Not DNF, but NRN (= Not Right Now). Like I think it's fun and good, but I'm currently not in the right headspace to enjoy it and I can't bring myself to keep reading. Can it please become a thing?

“Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. (...) Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”

The enemies becoming lovers at 2am really fucked up my sleeping schedule

"... What is my life for and what I am going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want; I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Je SAIS que c'est un retelling et je CONNAIS les grandes lignes du conte de Peau d'Âne. Alors pourquoi je suis bouche bée à chaque plot twist mdr ???