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not sure how much longer I can listen a man, even if it's Edward...

This book can best be summarized by Edward going into a 50 page spiral every time Bella breathes in the wrong direction and self flagellating every time Bella reciprocates his advances.

right off the bat you can tell how successful of an author Saunders is based on how many citations there are in the book, and how much it would've cost the publisher to credit each and every of them.

uh oh two Europa books in a row?! someone stop me 🤪

I swear to god if Stephanie Meyers describes Jacob's skin as "russet brown" one more time I'm going to rip my russet skin off my own body. Her editor couldn't think of just one more adjective to him ?!!!

Why am I actually taking notes on his hair and skincare routine 😶

"If Rombert had given me an amulet, even made of urine crystals, after I lost my toe, things would be different."

"In the living room, her schizophrenic housemate Dreyfuss was watching a basketball game with her disabled housemate Ramon on a scavenged TV set whose digital converter a third housemate Stephen, the one she was more or less in love with, had obtained by a sidewalk barter." Hate to say that this sentence has me hooked.

initially intimidated by the length of the book, but got sucked into the intertwining narratives so quickly

"Every human dies. But the bad news is that every day they act like they don't know they're alive. They lie or behave inconsiderately or cheat. Each one is a little death. Humans experience many little deaths before the final one."
Also: "Every solar system has a planet capable of producing water and that is roughly the same size as Earth. How many of these planets produce societies that destroy them?

"Her past passions sounded tinny when clinking against the jar of time. But they add up to a stack next to her elbow, a growing collection of desire and insight that might acquire significance if she trusts that it will."

not sure how to feel just yet

ants in my pants to finish this. i love how much she loves florence nightingale

DNFed one bc it was hitting too close to home, so let's see if anything has changed since then (also I judge books by their covers and this one is so good)

can't wait to see what the hype is about. I've been on an unreliable narrator binge lately idk what my therapist has to say about that

I have a feeling that this is going to be a hate read

Bunny is just like me fr... which is not a flex and something to be concerned about actually

nice

holyyyg shittttt tricks is the best short story i've read by far

Despite absolutely despising My year of R&R, I am going to give this author another try bc I'm easily influenced by booktok reviews

I'm a fake fan bc I'm getting this book signed but I'm only like 50 pages in lol

"why did we come to know one another? what chance willed it? it was because across the infinite, like two streams that flow but unite, our special vents of mind had driven us towards each other"

finally getting juicy after an unbearably slow beginning

fever dream