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Yeah…

I feel like every single page is saying the exact same thing and the author seems to just be writing the story as she goes. It’s literally giving first draft

I literally can’t stand this book like girl you’re so unlikable 😭

This book is really annoying me like the protagonist is sooooo annoying and unlikable and the writing is driving me crazy 😭😭😭… the way only 1/8th of it is healing and relatable 😭 but hey that 1/8th of the book’s gotta count for something bc this is the first Armenian literature I’ve read where someone has actually talked about this stuff

I was excited for this and I felt like this book was really relatable for the first few chapters but now it’s getting weird in a fanfiction -the writing’s tough bc it’s lots of Telling and Not Showing … Show don’t Tell!!! But unfortunately I am going to have to rate this 5 stars bc there’s literally only 10 modern Armenian published authors rn lol. It’s tough bc we have no room for mediocrity!

I am SO excited about this!!!

Really liking it so far!

This book is as big as a textbook… locking into my PhD in Linda Ronstadt

Annual reread ❤️❤️

Inner child healing time

So excited to dive into this! My dear Armenian language professor in college wrote it and I remember she read passages of it at events. So excited to read it in its full form!

Picking this back up! Read it 6 years ago and I loved it

Yall already know what time it is

And now for Turkish Armenian literature …

This book is such a blessing … so healing already .. I see so much of my great-grandparents, my grandparents, my parents, and myself in this book. Truly this is the only novel that exists about the Ethiopian-Armenian diaspora … I feel very lucky to be reading this at this point in my life, and for it to exist. 1300 Armenians used to live in Ethiopia, and now only 100-150 exist. This book is an act of preservation

I’m soooo excited to read this! One of the few, if only, Ethiopian-Armenian works of fiction. I can’t wait to see myself in this as an Ethiopian-Armenian

It’s basically April aka Armenian genocide awareness month aka I’m only reading Armenian literature this month. This book is a queer Armenian novel and I’ve read this author’s work before and it’s sooooo corny but literally there are so few other options for Armenian queer literature LOL

I’d like to think this book inspired toys like the plastic army men and GI Joe in addition to war movies like Rambo LOL!!

Ok literally much of this book is the mf Henry being like “my leg hurts” “this war is stupid” and his gf Catherine being like “I love you darling”

It’s taking me a while to get into this mostly because Hemingway was so clearly drunk when he wrote it lol. It’s like reading someone’s drunken text messages

Gf has been wanting me to read this for a year and I keep forgetting to and finally I’ve picked it up and I love it so far!

Very awesome and cool so far!!!!!!

Not to be that person … bc everyone’s stories are valid .. but it took forever for the author to get to the part where she first connects with JD Salinger … finally the tea has begun

I plan on re-reading Said’s Question of Palestine but I remember it being sooo dense, so I picked this up as a palette cleanser

Absolute tea

I was wondering if Cher had a ghostwriter for this or not and then Ashley said “she definitely did. Have you seen her tweets?” And that was enough for me to know the answer to that

I’m really liking it so far! Definitely matches the buzz revolving around it ..

Truly just awful writing .. who even was her editor