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Who the hell starts a conversation (book) like that? lmao

I did not anticipate that I'd be told why Chernobyl exploded lol

The silly little anecdotes about aliens are so so fun and also extremely helpful!!

Something I enjoy about non-fic is that sometimes I learn really interesting facts that I wouldn't have ever gone out of my way to learn by myself. However, I also carry a decent amount of skepticism bc you never know when facts and science are made up or not fully researched.

Chat I'm nearly done...

Maybe the true punishment is all the characters we meet along the way

So uhhh I think I'm going to be bringing down the Goodreads average for this lol

Sometimes there's nothing better than being an oblivious reader

One day I'll escape the Applebee's vortex

"Eventually, I understood that motherhood, as the child imagines it, is unperformable. No woman is a star. No woman is a god or a tree or a magician. But for a while, in your arms, the universe was the right size, and I knew where I was."

So this book is gonna hurt me, huh?

Just because the NYT's calls it the "best book of the 21st century" doesn't mean that it is lol

Sisyphus mentioned !!!!

Every AJW novel is so unique in its storytelling. I really like this nearly dark academia vibe

I really, really like Statement 071

Oh.. I was not expecting to see the f slur in this book. Let alone three times

Once you've been made aware of the "[XYZ] let out a breath they didn't know they were holding in" phenomenon, it follows you EVERYWHERE

Is it too early to DNF this???

Omg I taught my students about "Fear + Trigger = Scapegoat" earlier this year and here it is, in this book!!!!

A FUCKING ANNE FRANK CAMEO IS THE LAST THING I EXPECTED FROM THIS WHAT THE HELL

Orpheus and Eurydice but with forbidden knowledge

Sooo we're fine with just spoiling the entire plot of The Count of Monte Cristo?? Okay, I guess

The fact that Josef Mengele was a real human being is haunting

The more I'm reading, the less sure I am that this isn't problematic... there has already been an anti-Palestine mention and now there's a homophobic comment where the main character says she's disgusted by two men kissing. I can't bring myself to DNF, but I'm on edge

Back to our regularly scheduled preparation read

Good lord, imagine being Ariana Grande and reading this for the first time unwarned

If she keeps referring to Dan as "The Creator" throughout the duration of this book, it may just be one of the best writing decisions she's made

"delightfully gay and wicked" is gonna send my students into a laughing frenzy

So far this has done something differently compared to other memoirs I've read: it doesn't start off with "here's what I want you to expect and read into" but rather it just *begins* and lowkey I love it

I love when a book I'm reading references something I've just recently taught. It's like "huh, history is harmonizing"

ENEMIES TO LOVERS YEARNING INSIDE MY FUTURISTIC SCI-FI ROBOT NOVEL THAT'S INSIDE MY MODERN DAY NIGERIAN-AMERICAN LIT FIC NOVEL?!?!?!