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bro i'm not gonna finish in time TT

I am highlighting so much and not because I'm making a note to critique it in my review. The complete opposite ! So much delight in this reading experience

I think this says more about me than the book but I genuinely fell asleep reading this just awhile ago... i'm so tired....

I'm sooooooooooo hungry right now TT

I'm really liking this so far

Abangan ang aking review of which there definitely will be one kasi sa unang 40 pages pa lang may konting #reklamo na ako (mostly the Chinese stuff and some formatting nitpicks)

So far this is sinking to the bottom of my ranking

Sukiyaki chapter.. should I kms

She's swinging more strongly into the gothic aspect and I really wish she focused more clearly on this because I love the gothic turn but it's also kinda jarring since she spent so long in the first part Not introducing it

The novel lapsed back into academic writing for an in-verse paper extract and I could almost feel Ms Hau breathing a deep sigh and relaxing into her usual style hfksdfkdf

Naming your Atenean character "Blue" is funny as fuck I'll give her that. Though despite the in-universe explanation for Lia's social awareness I'm still so put off by it. Especially because I've heard of her exact type & have talked with people who are already rich but still less rich than her from UPD, and they are already crazily blithe & uncaring. What more a haciendera girlie?

"simone you should finish your books before starting more of them" NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER

Ms Hau ily but you have used the word "deadma" at least ten times already

"MY FAMILY'S SHARECROPPERS" 😭😭😭😭

... thinking of ways and means of getting out, or hiding somewhere out of reach of the dissidents ... anywhere, the farther from home the better, perhaps a leisurely trip around the world to blot out the memory of the nightmare, and finally settling down somewhere in peace and quiet, where everything can be bought for money, including peace of mind and happiness, but far away, a long, long way from home.

Read some more in DLQ. Something that is probably gonna be a problem for me is that Chizuko is beginning to elicit the same irritation I experienced with Poppy from Netflix's People We Meet on Vacation.

You guys are all FAKE FRIENDS why did NO ONE tell me Santos has written about student teacher before

Fun to have had that scene of Chizuko defending Chi-chan from the very same thing she had implied, with smiling unnoticed prejudice, a mere few pages before

Regarding the book within the book's introduction. The thing is—introductions often "spoil" and "over explain" in actual books. But the thing is, in most books you would feel fine skipping the introduction. This is not the case for this book within a book. I am chained to the linear demands of reading fiction.

I don't want to finish it... I half want to just stop here so it's never finished

BUT THAT NIGHT began Artie’s almost constant thoughts of his own father. They came to him most thickly as he was getting ready for bed, and then they got into bed with him, and the sadness he felt was almost warm, as though the quilt that covered him was his father, his love for his father,...

because you're like my explorer............... one million explosions.

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whats this feature

Somewhere in this flurry of papers, readings, and doomed late-night attempts to perfect Ramy’s potato curry, their first year came to an end.
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siguro part of what kills it for me is that she draws close for the lectures but zooms out for the collegial stuff like this, when the latter is what dark academia and real life college memories are Really made of...

‘So you’re here to ship silver back to those mutinying sepoys, are you?’
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how can you have arguments like these and remain friends? I remember originally disagreeing with other reviewers re Letty, but now I agree. i could have seen them remaining friends if they were 12-15, say. college age? no way...

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Chilling, and to me so pervasively horrifying