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cannot describe how absolutely thrilling it is to do a Raven Boys reread through this graphic novel!!!

I wish every book had a graphic novel adaptation because it makes a reread so much more profound and interesting when all I am able to consume is the dialogue between the characters without the prose (and with an artist’s interpretation of events at that!!!)

I’m actually fucking obsessed, I don’t care

Sas Milledge, the artist that you are, UGH!!!!

delectable reread through the eyes of an artist, trust that I’m staring at every panel and ooh-ing and aah-ing

im gonna need everyone to ignore how crazy i spammed my “want to read” (I cleaned up my screenshots 🧍)

heavily distracted by the way Macbeth’s bangs shadow over his face every time he shows up on the page (it looks so good, I want to chop my hair like his 😞)

just found out why Angelica says “screw your courage to the sticking place” in Hamilton and it was from reading this line-by-line manga adaptation of Macbeth, are you joking 😭😭

HEY. SO. WHAT THE FUCK?????? /POS

Thinking about my AAPI literature/ethnic studies professor at my community college, and how we both struggled to grasp how to make peers my age care about our communities.

Thinking about how Coates so far has poked at me with words to peel open my own mind and re-examine it.

God, I love my English professors and the readings they assign.

Adam and Ronan got me all :(

The chapter (section?) “True Love Comes for Mine Fujiko,” and a line on p. 313 that made me cry:

“When he got on the phone, he said, in the way that a person could say a name differently from anyone else in the world, simply because it was that name, in that mouth, passing between those two people, the deep-in-the-guy intimacy of siblings that Hero had never felt: Sol[y]—”

The author you are, Castillo.

someone needs to make me read my current book before I have to start reading other books for my classes, or else I’m going to tweak. 🧍🧍🧍