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Alr liking this book EVEN more bc Ollie is back as an mc!!! Ollie crazy stubborn brave girl ily

LISTENED AGAIN ON MY NIGHT WALK AT 11PM AND I WAS TERRIFIED. TERRIFIEDDDD. OLLIE BEHIND YOU AAAAAAA.

A guy walked up to me when I was out and i didn’t see him coming so I accidentally cussed him the fuck out 😭 he looked so shocked and ran away. It was so funny but I was terrified

Gonna ignore I spend €13 on this audiobook

Sadly at 50% and not much is happening :/ I loved part 1 I’m js unsure if it needed a part 2 yk

I take it back. I will get to my reading goal! I will finish the lies of Locke lamora this Xmas vacay. Hamsa idk how to tag you but if u see this expect an in depth review >:)

It’s 4am and I’m fucking terrified. I had to turn on the lights man. I’m so glad Ollie’s not alone omg. The scarecrows are terrifying omg

I was taking a walk at 10pm while listening to Ollie’s mysterious diary from 1895 coming up as a ghost legend in her class… let me js say that as soon as I got home I turned on all the lights and locked the doors… for no particular reason

Omg why is nothing happening. Get a move on omfg

Oh lord I’m never gonna make my reading goal. Uni nerfed me

I love Ollie!! She was exactly like me at 12. Incredibly stubborn and smart, so much so she gets herself into a little trouble. Except she’s way braver than I was. I’m so excited to read this

Started listening to this last night! It reminds me sm of being a kid and being read to sleep. What a wonderful writing style!!! For me it’s hard to read from children’s pov cuz they never feel like their age but this is great!

What’s the point of being a thief if you can’t spend money or you get found out. What’s the point in continuing to pull off high end schemes… just to fill the bottomless pit in your kitchen? I’m very curious where this is going to.

“They could live comfortably for ten crowns apiece each year, and to spend much more than that would invite the most unwelcome scrutiny imaginable, from every authority in Camorr, legal or otherwise. In four years, they’d brought off three huge scores and were currently working on their fourth; for four years, the vast majority of the money had simply been counted and thrown into the darkness of the vaults.”

“The tooth twisted in his mouth, as though wrenched by an unseen hand, and scored a burning slash across the inside of his cheek. Locke cried out, coughed, and spat it up. “Ahhh,” said Capa Barsavi as he plucked the the tooth up and slipped it back into his waistcoat, blood and all. “So you see—you are bound by an oath of blood to my service. My tooth has tasted of your life, and your life is mine..”

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING! I’m in tears from shock quite literally. You’re telling me they’re pulling off a scheme, then telling the victims its a scheme as the secret society but they’re also pretending to be the secret society trying to arrest… their original scheme selves so they tell the victim to play into the scheme? My brain is starting to hurt and I have a feeling this is only one of many layers

“Perry is way too fucking hot to ignore.
But I’m a big boy, I have no issues picking up, and there’s no way I’m going to turn into a pathetic little yes man just because my body is tortuously in tune with him. I hope.”

Absolutely LOL just literary stuff here

“I’m gonna manifest myself one more day.”
Perry doesn’t wanna die.

“My two daughters are the only people in these acknowledgements who have taken no interest whatsoever in this book. They are both avid consumers of UPF and, aside from being unsurprisingly willing participants in many eating trials, their contribution has been exclusively negative.”
Hehehehehehehehehe

I love how the cover does everything to pull you in and lays the comedic grounds perfectly, but is the POLAR OPPOSITE of Perry:

“Why would you make me uncomfortable?"
"Most straight guys don't appreciate being called cute."
"But I am cute." (I love you Perry)
He watches me from the corner of his eyes. "You are."

“I do a quick mental search to try and figure out if I ever have before, and nothing specific comes back to me, but it does seem like something I'd do.”

I’m embarrassed at how alike me and Perry are. This is a running joke between me and my friends, because yes, nothing comes to mind but I wouldn’t rule it out either. I like to say I do it ironically, but after how many times does irony turn into fact yk

“Truthfully, Perry isn't the kind of guy I normally go for, but something in his voice gave me this instant hit of familiarity.”
You don’t say so, huh. God this is hilarious

"”No good-all good." Shit, I'm fucking sweating. "Have a dood gay."
"A dood gay?" He leans his hip against the counter. "What would that be, exactly?"
"It was supposed to be good."
"A good gay?" His grin stretches wider, and my embar- rassment claws deeper. "How did you know that's my type?"”
Cannot believe he shot the guy’s ear off two pages ago

“Almost every other animal finds sour tastes aversive – experiments done in other primates show that they spit it out.8 But for humans the taste may be useful. Sourness is, after all, a sign of fermentation rather than putrefaction. When bacteria ferment food, they produce acids that preserve it. Lactobacilli in milk digest the lactose into lactic acid making yoghurt, which keeps up to ten times longer.“

“In fact, taste receptors are found throughout the body in the larynx, the testes and in the gut.”

T-testes?

“It may be that the same molecules may be perceived differently when sniffed compared with when they travel from the mouth to the nose. Barry explained: ‘A stinky cheese can smell disgusting – orthonsal olfaction – and pretty much like socks. But it can have a delicious flavour when those odours come from the mouth to the nose – retronasal olfaction.”

Fascinating.

“There’s a lot of literature showing humans’ sense of smell is similar to or more sensitive than dogs, mice or rabbits for odorants in fruit. Mice are good at detecting the molecules found in the urine of mouse predators (although we aren’t bad), and we are better than mice at detecting the smell of human blood”

“the olfactory nerves – the smell nerves – poke through the bone into the soft mucus-covered skin to touch inhaled air. The olfactory system is the only example of the brain sending its own neurons out like a probe. These nerves are covered in hundreds of different receptors – proteins with little pockets on them.”.
Blegh freaky

“flavours out of context may be messing up the body’s ability to make the correct associations between a nutrient and a food”:
you’re deficient in vit-A so you crave Vit-A rich foods. If (and I’ve not seen enough proof here to say that it is) the flavorings that are based off Vit-A are put into UPF, this vit-A “tag” (flavor) tricks you into eating more while not delivering the deficient nutrient.

“I'm killer with a pew pew.”

“I don't want to worry. Worrying leads to wrinkles, and I'm already thirty. Thirty in gay years is practically ancient—I don't need to look it as well.”