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yes, I just moved six books to DNF… YES, I’m coming back to those!!! next question

you guys… I am eating this UP!!! 🤭

hey what’s up I’m reading books again. this one rocks!

the new goodreads logo is weird as hell…

actually didn’t like story #2 that much…

story #1 done 😎

freaky as fuck already thank godddd

I’m like really into this

still one of the best things I’ve ever read btw.

shhhhhh no one tell tessa but I’m reading this too 🙈

inshallah I will finish this book before april ends….

astroNOMICAL levels of yearning in this you guys… like I thought I was bad. but this guy has it so much worse.

officially read more books in 2025 so far than I read in all of 2024… how cool is that !

tried to go one day audiobook-less to read a real book™️ and the demons started coming back with a vengeance sooooo now I’m reading two books! woohoo!! 🥳🥳🥳

this is so beautiful spoken aloud but I’m also dying to read it on the page. I love words!!!

lol this guy is insufferable

spotify has been holding her hostage for WEEKS but she’s finally back in my grasp. thank you chicago public library for coming through in the eleventh hour

quote on the cover says there’s “more life packed on a single page of ordinary girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” and yeah that’s true! but it’s also stressing me the hell out. every time I think her life can’t get worse it somehow does. but diaz writes about everything so so beautifully

reading this on my breaks so my work crush knows I’m smart 🤭🤭🤭

green’s writing excels and is at his best when he has a deep personal connection with the subject matter! but some essays leave me feeling unsatisfied

not entirely in love with the designing principle here but I did love the essay about dr pepper

started the audiobook on my drive home and I actually can’t put this down

incredibly insightful and delightfully funny. I’m convinced ziwe and i would be best friends! she loves phantom thread!!!!

“we are a culture who watched Chadwick Boseman fight colon cancer for four years right before our eyes and had the nerve to complain about him looking tired or disinterested.”

that was a footnote 😦

me and my mommy issues are going to loveeeee this one.

fuck yeah. maggie nelson rocks.

“Over and over again we emptied your drains into little Dixie cups and flushed the blood stuff down the hotel toilet. I’ve never loved you more than I did then, with your Kool-Aid drains, your bravery in going under the knife to live a better life, a life of wind on skin, your nodding off while propped up on a throne of hotel pillows so as not to disturb your stitches.”

I’m crying!!!!!