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ok you've bloody lost me with her turning into a fucking bird

"why should she keep quiet when she knew she was right?"

this is also not a healthy way to resolve your issues what on earth

this man’s frontal lobe is barely developed and he acts like it

do not threaten your girlfriend with a gun get some bloody therapy

after all that the daddy issues weren’t even really warranted

“it looked like something out of ancient Rome … with VENETIAN plastered ceiling”

there are far easier ways to get over your daddy issues but i respect the hustle i suppose

wdym ur the leader of an organised crime group and you don’t have double glazed windows surely that’s a security flaw

“A chorus of women replied in unison, like the Greek chorus for a play about pyramid schemes.”

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realises that the man she married is a freak. This is inevitable.”

… what

i can’t even tell what she believes in but i suppose that is kind of the point, she doesn’t either. she is performing at it all in the way she thinks god calls her to do despite her husband and her life just Not Being What It Should.

“omg i hate her but i want to be her and im scared but she obviously wants to be me and of course im living the true best life” - a summary of natalie’s internal monologue

hannah i imagine you do feel broken but like call your therapist don’t do this

but that combined with the not like other girls of it all is making for a not entirely pleasurable reading experience.

“i like to think gossiping is beneath me” omg it’s page 12 pls don’t make me hate you already

i hate that the american cover is much nicer than the uk one

he’s at a party, supposed to be cool, and he’s walking in in his school football kit … full kit wanker

a school football match is not held in a fucking stadium with premier league scouts … that’s just weird american showmanship

painfully american … fucking awfully so … like no british teenager calls it sophomore year … you should be freaking out about out levels

i am terrified to ever be barbara

“It felt so good to Joan, to hurt to leave her”

"Let the world be as I see it just for tonight. Without too many grey areas and caveats. Where I know I'm mortal but I'm not sure that you're not a god"

i feel sick ... space is so horrifyingly large but i can understand its beauty. i cannot however understand the drive that would push someone to go explore space. i feel very anxious. maybe i should not read project hail mary

end of part 3 feelings ;

omg enda wtf. but also the moment when tomás realises his daughter is a person and could have carried on his legacy if only he had seen and taken her willingness and taken it up instead of trying to force the unwilling son - phina sends her off and gives her the taste of the world. i feel attached to the autistic coded eugene. and rose? all left behind by her siblings choice

feelings at the end of part 2;

holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck. how is it so slow but still so crawling in a still brilliant way, in the same way a day can feel so long but a year like a blink. i feel a deep love for these children and the space they inhabit and the scars of a land beaten and trodden

end of part one feelings;

i forgot how brilliant she is. i'm so sucked in i can't stop thinking about it. i had reservations cos unlinke the other two historical novels this one is more focused on men and my immediate instict was that idk abt men. mixed feelings about the lack of chapters though - the ebb and flow of the story is so present but i think chapters help mark progress and keep things straight. idk.

is there a plot to this… it all feels very meandering. i don’t even think we’ve met the third girl yet. to be so meandering and loose kinda loses some of the impact of the story because there doesn’t feel like anything is happening. like 200 + pages in there is beautiful description but nothing concrete or plot based. maybe should have been one story or followed one character?

“like a turkey dreaming of christmas”

there's no way that there's a marketing hall of fame

nooo not the miscommunication … but also like 3 chapters ago you were ready to fight for this sebastian wdym you can’t listen to her and have a conversation

all men do is disappoint