Martha Phillips > Recent Status Updates

wow!!! thank you char!
love. love love.
so many quote that i like. so much more interesting than my last book (god i’m glad thats over!)
i started reading this book on the train to london for my biometrics submission and i didn’t put it down the whole time. i even read it standing up on the tube!

this book is turning me into a simp !

the pace of the book is picking up and finally i found i couldn’t put it down. i have been waiting for this book to do this and finally at the end it does this.

found a lovely quote
“use the technology which the engineer has developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirits. never allowed technology to be your master, and never use it to gain mastery over others.”

some good quotes

“although i make objections i am excited by the idea”
relatable

“a miasma of somnolence hangs over the house”
like those words

“but what if the human spirit is noble and generous - and creative, empathetic, imaginative, spiritual - all those things we try to be - and sometimes it’s just not strong enough to withstand all the meanness selfishness in the world”

it’s okay. good to get back into reading. i forget how mundane this book is. it’s nice to escape my world for some time but it’s a bit dull…

i’m still sad, but it makes sense now.
so tired my eyes can barely read, and every noise throws me off. but i read a chapter. and i mostly enjoyed it.

now for (hopefully) a deep slumber. my first slumber alone in a long long time

i am so sad

i’m so sad

yeah it’s okay. getting better with every page but i’m finding it hard to focus

i’m enjoying it now. it’s picking up. i’m less of a wreck too so that’s helping - i’m not reading-but-not-reading anymore

better again. i hate the tractor inserts, but other than that, good

idk it seems ok but i’m finding it hard to concentrate.

CANADA!!!!!!!

enjoying it. it helps

it’s finally more interesting.
a nice distraction from my harsh reality.
“i am riven with anxiety. i am consumed with curiosity”
p28

it’s more interesting now, definately not my regular cup of tea but i think i can see myself getting into it. more quotes in this that i like and i 100000% prefer it over diary of an oxygen thief. i might read this book between other ones, though parts of me want to persevere with it. it’s not mega gripping, but for now, it will do.

stopped being able to absorb somewhere near the bottom of 118. quite tired.
it picked up again thank god, and he started telling us the story that the whole book has been leading up to. hope it’s a good one because honestly this could be the let down of all let downs. i so badly want to see if he’s been discovered because i hope he has. ransid gross boomer as i picture him.

gosh he really dragged out that shite about minnesota being cold. he is such a boring writer when he’s just spilling his brains onto the pages. didn’t really like the beginning part, but at least it was interesting. i can’t wait for this read to be over tbh…

idk

can’t wait for his downfall and to google if we’ve figured out who he is

i hate this man. i don’t know why im still reading tbh

this man is awful. i wish to have never supported him. i cannot wait to sell it on to someone else so he isn’t to benefit from someone’s curiosity. why do men just decide that a woman to have good sex with is not wife material? he speaks of how if a girl swallows, it’s attractive and flattering, but not wife material. ridiculous! if it’s hot, why not want that trait for your life partner? so misogynistic!

already hate the author but i’m intrigued to know how much of a POS he is i guess??
actually frustrated that he can be poetic seeing as he is a horrendous person, there’s a couple of quote that i like - ive photographed them and will add them to my quote note.