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Cannot get into this. I never liked the character holly so I don’t even know why I picked it up

Not really liking how much jumping around there is. And I’m not in really invested in the police pov. Think it would be better as just a single view

Could it be ms baker? Is she a love child of the hope family? Did she kill them as revenge for abandoning her or giving her up? She went to Paris, like ms hope had hoped to do with her daughters?

200/202 🤨why’d u lie Archie

-> prego with someone else’s love child.??? He wanted her all for himself? Idk really but I just feel really suspicious about it. And then later he killed Mary because she found out about carter being a blood relations which threatened to take Lenora away from him again as well as all the money and property? Ms baker probs helped???? I love this book so far. Everyone’s suspicious ₕₑₕₑ

Okay okay POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!! Cuz I’m not sure!!!
But my prediction as of half way through the book is that it was Archie that killed the family and later on Mary. And maybe ms baker helped cover that one up
Why? Archie would have access to knives, that he can clean and not look suspicious cuz they are part of the kitchen. He would have the strength to lift Virginia. Why? He was in love with Lenora? But she was->

It’s kinda like the secret history. Why are philosophy students always rich and crazy ₗₒₗ

So far so good

Blossoming romance and societal expectations

Character and world building

Seriously? This is a rip off of misery. Spoiler : the deranged woman was about to smash the mc’s legs. Sounds familiar doesn’t it

How many more times is this deranged women going to say her assumptions about the mc
She is in fact, deranged

Is this like misery by Stephen king?

“She had always been entirely alone in every emotion.”

So funny. Love it. I watched the film recently and usually I would say don’t watch the film until after u read the book but because this book is so sciency, it really helps to have seen the visualisation of everything that’s going on first. Loving it so far. Weir is so funny and so intelligent. His love of the Beatles cracks me up everytime I see a reference

I love twilight.

"Books…are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget."
…
"I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skin," he says. "It reminds us that we've been marked by the world, that we're still alive. That we'll never forget."

Going to stop for now. Just bought my own copy. Was reading a library copy. I want to annotate this book. It’s beautiful. The way Backman thinks is so insightful.

“I usually ask my patients what they think about the woman in the picture. Who is she? Is she happy? What do
you think?'
'I don't know what happiness is for her.?
The psychologist said nothing for a while before admitting ‘I’ve never heard that answer before'
Zara snorted.
"That's because you ask the question as if there's only one type of happiness. But happiness is like money”

“People like you are never as complicated as you'd like to be, especially not if you've been to university. Your generation don't want to study a subject, you just want to study yourselves.”
Ouch

“But his words hit my blood-
stream like an espresso shot.”

“Being here sometimes makes me feel like I've regressed, but I'm not a reckless seventeen-year-old anymore.”

So far so good. 🥰 I’ve heard really mixed reviews about this book but I’m going in with an open mind

'Don't take it personally, but there are girls who live life to the fullest, and there are girls who read a lot and make friends with their teachers. Doesn't take a detective to figure out which one you are, Nurse Hannah."

That quote kinda hit home…..