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Interesting quote: "we mistake familiarity for intimacy. It is not intimacy. All it is is habit - and habit is a shorthand for silence"

Starting the year with some Andre Aciman... cute read

I want to finish this book before 2026...

I love these weird smutty books :) great way to waste the day away

This is getting so depressing but it's so good help
I also finished my 15 hours of audiobook of Spotify so now I'm going back to the physical copy... it's difficult to have to choose between reading and crocheting now

Honestly.... audiobooks and crochet combo absolutely slay

I'm making this my "running" book. Finally giving audiobooks a chance!

I'd like to read something silly... these annotations are making me get in my feels

Annotating this for a gift.. why is everyone so insufferable????

I know everyone loves this book... I find it kind of boring unfortunately🥲 I hope this changes in the next half of the book

This is so confusing help

This sequel is sooo much more intense than the first... I'm taking a few days' break to digest it so far cause OUCH!
Also Baek SeHee passed away last week :( makes it a tad more intense to read her unfiltered thoughts

I cringed quite a lot but ngl I needed this

I am so heartbroken. I've been crying non-stop for the past 50 pages..
The writing is so beautiful, the characters truly come alive in the story - but the author is actively using this realism to break our hearts. She is succeeding.

So many people talk about this book as a "MUST READ!", which is honestly the main reason why I'm still reading it at this point - that and my inability to quit a book once I've started it. The truth is, however, I would not recommend this book to somebody else. The writing is so good, but it's so emotionally destructive to get through this... why torture yourself?

"He was worried because to be alive was to worry. Life was scary; it was unknowable" 👏

Oh...

The fact that this was a gift from my colleagues when I quit Zara is highly indicative of the energy in that workplace

We're stacking trigger warnings like pancakes here: say hi to drug abuse!! Honestly, this is the TW I struggle the most with out of all the ones so far.. I cringed and shivered at previous parts, but here is the first point where I'm considering stopping this read. Knowing me, I'll probably keep trying to push through though

TEARS OF JOY!

She's giving us such an excruciatingly small amount of information at the time. I am hooked. And obsessed.

This is so scary but so cute... prep the defribillator for when my heart will inevitably stop 🤓

This book is surprising me more and more.. I was expecting a study on romantic love, but it's so far covering all aspects of love except the romantic one, which is absolutely amazing!