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Had to pause when I got to All I've Ever Known because I didn't want to cry at work

"now Hermes was able to act as Orpheus's wingman (yeah, that pun was intended)" LOVEEE

"Was a life not worth redeeming simply because you'd been given it?"

I think I'm actually going to Eat this book my brain is going brerrrrrrrr

"My newest strategy for coping with being alive was all about disengaging from the self and putting my love and energy into others. Thus, a fangirl was born!"

... I'm in this picture and I don't like it

"After a while, I propped the photo up on my windowsill as a reminder. I needed to remember who I’d been, the lengths I’d gone to for self-improvement, the sacrifices I’d made to fix myself. How good I’d once been. I’d look at the picture as time passed [...] The me in that photo was slipping further and further away. The picture got knocked and crumpled over time. Eventually, the sunlight destroyed it."

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at first I was like,, why did I love this so much as a kid?? why was it tied for my favorite alongside 11 birthdays???? but now I'm like ohhh ya I get it. no wonder I read this one almost as many times as book 1.

The changes from the audiobook/original British version usually make sense (though are often annoying), like "torch" to "flashlight" etc.. but why on earth would they change "book" to "pamphlet"? 😭 we have books in the united states ?????

just peeked into the back of my edition and there's a bonus chapter which made me physically say YIPPEEEEE

If I was crying while reading this then what about it!!!!

I've liked a lot of the chapters, but I'm not in the right headspace to finish it right now. It's very long and I keep dragging my feet to listen to it.. another time, then 💛

I love this So Much aaaaa aa aaaaaaa

Shoutout to this book and Ritz crackers for being the only things to pull me through a wild bit of insomnia last night (I am so tired)

hearing alexis bledel's (winnie in the disney movie adaptation) grown-up voice reading the opening lines made me want to cry... the wheel keeps on turning, indeed 💛

could not sleep last night so I borrowed this audiobook (read by the author), and I already can't wait for this one to be one I return to. did I fall asleep immediately, insomnia and anxiety cured? no, but it provided for a moment of wonderment, which is worth a lot

going from sentences that make me laugh out loud to sentences I wish I could unread in rapid succession here

read this before bed if you want to drift off with all the wonders of existentialism cradling you to sleep (man I was Sad last night)

reading this because joe keery is going to be one of the main characters in the upcoming movie :) and the andy weir-isms are a plus, though I doubt this will reach the same amount of heart and scientific accuracy/enthusiasm. cheers to the scene that made me go "eww so this WILL be gross to watch in theaters" (lord willing I will anyway)