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I am ADDICTED AND I CANT PUT THIS DOWN ALI ILY

Honestly I’m already exhausted and this book is putting me to sleep

“But the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is ‘the results of modern investigation.”

LMAOO this is a satirical bit on damnation

“That is the ebb and flow of life, swinging toward and away from one another, perhaps so we build up the strength for that one moment we will be rocked so far away, the person we love the most is gone by the time we return.”

“The only numbers Landon Carpenter has in his head are the numbers of stars in the sky on the days his children were born.”

“…all spineless creatures are frightened of a woman’s power.”

“What it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.”

Bunch of envious double crossers

Honestly these characters are pissing me off. There’s a bunch of cheating and zero self awareness and a lot of self-indulgent misery and it’s annoying me. Gonna put this one on pause until I feel like pushing through the last 30% or whatever of this book

This book can be a bit preachy at times because it does rely more heavily on telling vs showing. Also the passage of time is weird and unclear? Other than those two main points, I do find the book oddly cozy

DNF - this feels choppy with random, spur of the moment details thrown in and it’s not for me

Tbh this book is boring me but I’m so far into it that I’m determined to finish it

“…what lay beneath the theater of performative womanhood was a salivating desire for this - acceptance. Rest.”

“…because who could ever really see all her shit and still want to stay?”

This book is so Black Mirror-y with some interesting speculations surrounding AI and personal data

This concept is so interesting. I’m curious to see if it’s only women subjected to this system

This book has me cracking up. Also the vibes are somewhere between Coco and a murder mystery? This would be cute to read around Halloween

I’m loving the spooky vibes of this book. YA paranormal books feel so nostalgic for some reason