Emily Elizabeth > Recent Status Updates

I want to like this book but then it has a batshit crazy detail or description that makes no sense to the story.

In other news, this book makes me miss living in Philly

“Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes…how can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”

🤯

Do it robin…use your anger…strike the colonial system DOWN

The British colonized the world for spices and only knows how to undersalt or over salt - R. F. Kuang I love you

WOOF

This third act breakup is stupid

I don’t know how I missed this but they had sex AGAINST A DIRTY PLASTIC SHEET IN THE POURING RAIN. Forget the vasectomy you need to get tested

Getting a vasectomy for someone you ARENT DATING is insane behavior and Poppy my forgive but I will NEVER forget

Everything is going well but there’s still so much of this book left…

This book is giving me uncanny valley vibes and I will not be elaborating at this time

“Poppy…you don’t know you’re beautiful babe…you’re real…not like AI” GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK

Get an advisor who buys you books related to your research

PhD student just trying to read something academic and also not academic. Grad school is weird

“It is difficult to see a thing as beautiful when it is something we are not used to seeing. It is even more difficult to call something beautiful when we are worried we will be judged or laughed at for doing so.”

Lucy Neville the researcher that you ARE

Of course, there’s only one bed

The plot is plotting

I’ve read so little and I’m already getting mad

Resolved in A SINGLE PAGE????? I’m coming to your house

A third act break up with 20 pages left? Don’t piss me off.

Now I’m out of my reading slump it is OVER for you bitches

Take me out back and tell me to look up because of how pretty the sky is before shooting me in the back of the head

What kind of psychopath drinks CHAMPAGNE before a date??? Are you a millionaire???

I can put up with the insane horniness of this book but I will NOT stand for a homophobic portrayal of a gay best friend caricature

I’m begging for these characters to use normal descriptions for things

Even if they’re your typical monster, I still don’t care what men think

He was wagging his WHAT at you??

I knew it. I fucking KNEW IT

Every turn in this book has been a fucking left but oh my god what is happening

What is HAPPENING HERE?!?! WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!