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😊 going to be in the worst book hangover after this 😊

Grey Serrado, the man that you are

Note to self: When you start a series, read the books back-to-back.
(What on earth happened in book 1? I should've started there 😔)

Why am I having a weird sense of foreboding 🫤

This is going to be the best read of 2025

No one speak to me, I've been waiting for this for a whole year.
(Tristan, my sweet baby angel)

Albanian loses its vibrancy when it's translated (especially into English). English could never capture the richness and depth Albanian possesses.
(just an observation)

Ohhhh you mean to tell me it was Agron*** 😒
I can count on one hand the number of times she mentioned anything related to Albanians. The spelling and grammar mistakes are making me regret picking this up

If you're going to write a dark mafia romance book titled The Albanian, the least you could do is NOT make him part TURKISH! 😒

Hot start...bring me an Albanian person named "Argon". I'll wait

Reading for OBVIOUS RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY😂

God, Letty is insufferable

"Surviving's not that difficult, Birdie....But you've got to maintain some dignity while you're at it."

"You have such a great fear of freedom, brother. It's shackling you. You've identified so hard with the colonizer, you think any threat to them is a threat to you. When are you going to realize you can't be one of them?"

"Quot linguas quis callet, tot homines valet.
The more languages you speak, the more men you are worth."

— Charles V

"But that's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already."

"Albania was a country that made you uneasy and tense, but alert and alive. It infuriated, exasperated, without apology or retribution, and yet one felt seen here, often even loved. The urge to escape its stifling confinement was tinged with unexpected melancholy—for foreigners and natives alike."

E di që s'duhet të tregohem e rreptë kaq herët por do doja që ato dy fjalë shqip që janë këtu brenda të ishin shkruar siç duhet 🙁 (grack?? për një ë që ti se vë...)

Currently in the worst reading slump of all time but that's to be expected when I spent all August in the sea 🌊 it's fine, I'm fine 😊😊😊

This is turning out to be a big, fat NO! This man is talking about how a woman's trapped emotion is the sadness she felt about JFK's assassination in 1963...be so serious right now. I'm done, I give up

After this, I'm taking an indefinite break from self-help books. Estoy cansada, jefe 😩

"Self-esteem, we must realize, is the quality of self-respect that is evident in a person’s emotional life and behavior. A superficially positive self-image and true self-esteem are by no means necessarily identical...People who have a grandiose and inflated view of themselves on the conscious level are lacking true self-esteem at the core of their psyche."

I have picked this book up more times than I can count over the past few months, only to realize that it isn't meant to be read in one sitting.

"I have no clear idea of myself, not even an idea that consists of having no idea of myself. I am a nomad of my own consciousness of myself. The flocks of my inner riches all scattered during the first watch."

I'm trying to savor this because I know book 3 won't be out until next year 😭

"Better the bitter herb of your own people than the honey of your enemy"