Elyse Whiteside > Recent Status Updates

I started this book in July for my middle schoolers and am cramming it in as my last book of 2025 so I can reach my reading goal. HYFR! It’s 10:23 pm lol

determined to finish it this time!!!!!

Seeing myself so harshly in this book and I’m crying and also weeping

“I was a woman capable of terrible spite and brutal jealousy. Once formed, my opinions set like concrete begging for a sledgehammer. A woman who loved reluctantly, and then deeply.
I wanted to be known, but accidentally,….
I was a woman who was tired of herself
and the places she had been.”

she gets me fr but also she’s dumb asf

Omg I honestly wasn’t expecting that but now that it happened it seemed fairly obvious it would happen

Unfortunately Hugo and Daphne are very me and J—— coded and it kills me bc I simply just miss my friend. I miss being able to call him whenever I want and talk about stupid shit. I even miss him being an absolute asshole to me and me an absolute bitch to him. It would’ve never worked and I knew that. But anyways this is a great story for me in the friend starts dating and the priorities shift blah blah blah

Emily Henry really ate this one up. I’m enthralled

I had to pause so I could wait for the audiobook on Libby to be ready for me but holy shit this book is so good

finally! something a little gay!

ITS NO USE JO WEVE GOT TO HAVE IT OUT. IVE LOVED YOU EVER SINCE IVE KNOW YOU JO, COULDNT HELP IT

kill me. this is everything everything everything to me. this is actually the third time I’ve reread this chapter.

Help I’m stuck at the restaurant but the restaurant being page 339 of little women with the image of timmy and saoirse in my head ripping me to shreds

I have one chapter left. I’ve been avoiding finishing it because it’s just too real. The miscommunication. The timing. The power they hold over one another. The senselessness of it all. I always knew this book would destroy me. Does there always have to be an end to every good thing?

I think what I don’t like is the apathetic characters in all of sally rooney’s books. The nonchalant too cool to care types are so annoying. Like you obviously care that Connell is keeping you a secret stop trying to be quirky!!!!!

Also does Sally Rooney just hate quotation marks or is it an Irish thing?

I have high expectations bc this is one of Rae’s favorites.

Everyone in this book is so misguided wtf. I’m confused. But loving that it’s written in 3rd person and I’m getting a fuller story with multiple perspectives

this is actually so good. Alix is so cringy but also a well relatable character for literally anyone w/ racial biases (which is all of us btw) & Emira is so painfully relatable personally as I’m trying to figure out wtf to do w/ my life and feel like my job is fake & phony. & having a hard time being happy for ur friends and their successes. & the crossover with Kelley???? So good. I’ve been waiting for this one

“this could only interfere with my other ambitions such as achieving enlightenment and being a fun girl” REAL lmao

I think I just might not be a sally rooney girl. But I’m picturing Joe alwyn as nick in this and I want to smash his face

I’ve been trying to get through this book all year. Pls don’t ask me why. I don’t think I’m big brain enough to get through this one lol

Holy shit I should go to therapy

Dolly’s reaction to her bff’s engagement: “ik it sounds like I’m being melodramatic,” in between sobs, “ik people grow up & things change but Christ I never thought everything would change when we were only 25!”
This!!! Desperately wanting to be happy for the person u love being loved by someone else while simultaneously grieving the change & loss of ur friendship in real time right in front of ur face

omg the dinosaur taco book she reads at the library is real I’ve read it to the kids I babysit omg omg omg. I can tell this book is going to do things to me!

Somehow got 25% of the way through this book last night and I’m still confused on who the mf characters are

Omg this audiobook is read by an Irish woman omg omg omg

omg wasn’t expecting this plot twist of Gus’s past relationship