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I’m sorry Ms Bronte, obvs it’s excellent but I’m just not gravitating to pick it up lately :/

Love the bitching about Mark Zuckerberg losing touch with his human decency and becoming power hungry but I’ve gotten bored now. We know the company and all the top level staff suck soooo leave already and end the book :/

Ireland and Enda Kenny acting the lick arse getting a shout out relating to tax avoidance 🙌🏻

Noooo Joel Kaplan, prev chief of staff for Bush administration and president of global affairs at facebook, needing a map because he kept asking where different countries were ahhhahaha aw girls it really shows how bleak things are but ya gotta laugh I guess

The description of facebook almost agreeing to having their first global political initiative being (a) military or (b) organ donation is a GREAT example of how america-centric the company has always been! And how thick some of the very privileged people that work there are. This explains so much about why the world is fucked rn :/

I’m sorry I need you to linger a little longer on how you ended up working in the UN, cause anyone I knew who did that, yes had brains, but more so, had family money and plenty of privilege…
#feelingsceptical of miss facebook :/

Girl wait what the fuck is wrong with your parents to react that chill to a shark attack??!
Bizarre behaviour by every adult involved

The way I am BEAT into this! Think I finally found a trendy romance book where the fella, dialogue and romantic dynamic is actually attractive to me 🥹❤️

The way I JUST clocked I was doing updates on book lovers when I am in fact reading beach read… opps!

She has the same kink as me! Making a grumpy man laugh 😌

I am yet to really like a booktok popular romance novel and I really hope this was the right book to pick for holidays and that I don’t hate it 🥺

Chapter 58 is truly the most dreamy piece of romantic literature- two stubborn people admit they’re wrong, overcome miscommunication and have the most emotionally open conversation to
ever grace a book girlie’s eyes ❤️❤️❤️

I remember finding the bit where Jane was sick in netherfield so boring when I first read this, (where’s the balls and fancy gaff descriptions at you know!? Also the Bingley sisters sucked) but now I’m loving how this incident allowed Darcy to warm to Elizabeth and her noticing - so cute 🥺❤️

Aaron is such a prick

My guess: even though he is so denial it potential could be, the crime case he’s involved in is linked to the kidnapping.

All the stuff with his friends is just a side line story that has 0 to do with the kidnapping.

“…he wishes Sive hadn’t told the police officer their secret” - dude honestly I’ve lost track, which of their secrets did she tell them again?

I respect Pete’s stance that it is all just rock n roll and not to take it too seriously 😌
If only some of the others listened to him 🥺

Forever a sucked for a 70s it girl ❤️❤️❤️

Oh no Sophie thinking the worst of everyone and everything is very draining queen and toying with lovely Rory for Finn who is so clearly a fuckboy just for your ego, babe noooo it will end bad - I feel it

The writing is so clear and blunt and honest but sometimes sarcastic and basically PLEASE WRITE MORE @ Jenette McCurdy
Also the audiobooks HITS

A chronically online Dublin girl dealing with post-college unemployment and insecurities. Is this like a personal attack or something?

Every line is currently chaos. There is a random homeless man prying her apart from her friends having a physical argument with a billionaire dude texting her, doing bumps and buying diamond earrings. Oh wait the girls have made up and are roadtripping around the south of the country.
Girl I’m overwhelmed

I don’t know if I’m impressed or find it irritating that her recap of her teenage years sound like they’re from the perspective of a teenager

Her account of some of the writers she worked with makes me sad.
Clearly talented and interesting people! but like…— Jean Rhys is broke till her death
— Alfred Chester dies of madness
— V.S. Naipaul is prone to depression and only seems to find personal peace when he stops writing/being published

- not exactly a glowing advert for the writer’s life :(

“…but then I had no conception of how someone who feels he doesn’t belong to his “home” and cannot belong anywhere else is forced to exist only in himself; nor of how exhausting and precarious such a condition (blithely seen by the young and ignorant as desirable) can be.”

What an empathetic and insightful line on race, identity, sense of self and being a writer ❤️

Every second sentence has me going, “girl wtf?! You were a baby!!” Truly some peak levels of childhood trauma being casually dropped in

Also, she so many besties in so little time:
Harmony, Ella, Tricia, Rose - I need a “where are they now” piece on all if these girlies

Actually have a lot of respect for Diana’s handling of the Myra Hindley situation, “what would society gain…?”, By publishing her memoir where she exaggerates her youth and tries not to take ownership of her crime.
What do we gain from giving voice to anyone else like that on talk shows or stories shown on tv shows or through book deals?

“The country seemed to teem with people, most of them young women, so eager to work with books that they would endure poverty and pain to do so: a situation which we certainly exploited.”
💔💔💔

Immediately adding “Into that Darkness” by Gitta Sereny to my “want to read” list because of Diana’s description of her and her work ❤️

So Diane said what she earned a year in the 40s you know I nosely needed to know what that is now…
£380 a year = ~ £15,000
£500 a year = ~ £21,500

Yup and creative jobs in London would advertise those amounts today and then act dumb as to why only upper class people work in the industry!!

Oh I hope I don’t just feel pissy about the privileged class working in publishing when reading this :/

I know this is such great ancient wisdom blah blah but it’s soooooo BORING and repetitive ugh get to the point Marcus