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Aw i liked the social worker 8U that wasn't as unpleasant an interaction as i worried WHICH, GOOD. GIVE A BITCH A BREAK

It do be rough out there when your mom be fuckin a bird i guess ie. I came in blind and im losing my mind about it

AOUGH why did i finish work so late. I'm lucky that last part was short so i could still read before bed but AUGH leaving off on the snippet that was in the front... MEAN

WHATS WITH THE MEDIA EXERPTS AT THE END OF THE PARTS, HUH???? <<< heavily invested and only stopping now bcos I'm scared of being so invested i frick up my sleep schedule again

Yeah its been almost 3 years but I'm finally picking it back up again. I did reread the pages that triggered me and, maybe it's because I'm tandem reading or maybe it's because I remembered something worse, but I was completely fine.

In fact, her inability to sleep due to trauma and her messy qualities bubbling up now in her relationship are so enchanting i felt so very invested in her and Judah

pausing to appreciate: crude innuendo flirting but theyre married and so clearly in love that like. i don't care? good for them??? so its NOT that im a prude im just really really demi :CLOWN:

yes. i was worried about it :CLOWN BUT MORE:

i stress and pace and put the book down any time there's a court scene, but the bonding between characters fills me with so much joy akgsdgks

ok now im chronological again. i got to the part that made kabie recommend this to me UwUc With all these shitty men around, Ephraim standing there in the storm's center truly is an ideal.

but man, also, i didnt peep that fact about Cyrus at all in the first interaction, it was so natural. had to go reread it and everything. he moved up the favorites list SO quick

ok i admit, undiagnosed anxiety makes me skip around and i read the last 60 pages in a very intense swoosh WHOOPSIES but HEY. I DONT KNOW HOW WE GET THERE BUT I LIKE WHAT I SAW A LOT SO WAHOO counting that as progress :zany: i can now hate Page and North in peace

ANGRY ANGRY BITES BITES BITES


I typed that bcos its 5am and i have big feelings during this encounter, but then when Big Mama also had these big feelings i hold my head bcos oh no. Slay, though

That's right. This is why i kept avoiding the book. I didn't want to deal with more rape stories. LIKE, ITS HANDLED WELL AND REAL AND TASTEFUL AND I FEEL FOR HER SO STRONGLY but . I think I'm allowed to be tired, also.

i started with the audiobook since it's due in about a week, but there are so many names that i'm SO GLAD i had the foresight to assume i'd want to tandem read it. Enjoying it so far though!

[disgusting sobbing with snot in the mix]

[After the most ugly sobbing known to man]

Yeah, man, these poems are really cute

I'm sobbing my heart out on Pokeri's couch and she's laughing at me

revisiting this book because I think it was fourth grade? when we read this? at the part that's haunted me the most about it. this visual still so vivid it came to me when I heard Florence + the Machine's "What the Water Gave Me" over a decade later for the first time

@authors notes: of course he'd be considered demisexual in modern terms. obviously!

*didn't pick up on that at all as an aspec and just thought this was all the Average experience*

i'm so glad i'm tandem reading this, sure the words sing on the page, but the audiobook narration made me loop this single paragraph over and over to relive it. not that it said anything special, but that it was so familiar and real that i could see it before me with the characters recasted from people i knew.

awww uwu title drop

this book's premise has so much cliche i wasn't sure how i was going to endure it without bashing my head in

genuinely it hasn't happened once and i love the feel of the characters, so natural for all they are

nooo not the internalized homophobia 😭

ok it wasnt what i was bracing for, though still uncomfortable (as it should be).

yeah i cant do this chapter tonight lmao

The sassiness and lightheartedness of all the personal morbidity always makes the moments of soft vulnerability hit me like a freight train and i find myself suddenly sobbing over one sentence for a whole day

just mention of "are you even [half your ethnicity]" and i had to pause to bawl for a moment. And, this one is just. mind boggling in a way that i'd never considered as a nonblack poc

(sobbing big again) yaaaaaaaaay

what? the chapter with the boring, self-deprecating, but incredibly devoted man got me? masu? really? nooooooo (she ugly sobbed, your honor)

..damn. i think this was the best tragedy of a tsundere, actually, that hurt a lot.