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i’m reading this section at work…trying desperately to cover up the drawing on this page…wondering if this section is narrated by vonnegut in the abridged version on spotify….

i’m so over the oedpius-freudian direction thrillers take so often to be “shocking”

the detail of dominic calling geo “ms. shaw” instead of mom is a level of heart breaking formality that only a child looking for love but not wanting to squander his last chance at affection and a family could do to shatter my heart. how dos this book keep getting sadder and sadder??

i can’t with the jar of hearts by christina perri reference 😭😭 i know this takes place in 2015 but i really don’t want to be reminded of my life at that time either girl

“the psychosis of a crime”… okay im taken out again. reads like a true crime enjoyer with very surface level understanding of crime procedurals based on law & order

i’m so over the two surgeon parents and their obsession with genetics

angela 😭

kai 💔

when i first heard about this book, i wondered why it was titled “jar of hearts.” i love figuring out possible meanings behind titles. page 157 paints such a beautifully haunting and poignant picture behind the book’s title; heart shaped candies, sweet at first, but the longer you have it, the more it hurts, just like geo & calvin’s relationship. still, the jar does not shatter. you cannot bury the past.

okay now it’s good. pretty good! i’m charmed by chapter 13, in its quality of writing and in the plot progression. i was initially unsure how i felt of the nonlinear story, but now i see it works in the book’s favor.

“part two: anger” really picked up the story and the writing is considerably better (maybe geo’s character is just annoying to me… that is also a possibility). “part three: bargaining” returns to geo’s story and it’s better than the first part which is a relief.

this is the second time i think the author meant to write “definitely” but instead wrote “defiantly” and it takes me out of the story so bad

pg 35????? hello???? the whiplash i felt made my chronic neck pain feel like nothing

not a lot of variety in sentence structure but like where the story is going