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Can you call Eve messy if she say the shit directly? 😂

It’s so heartbreaking to witness your friends and family go through abuse, when they’re not ready to leave, especially when you’re both not even old enough to drink. ❤️‍🩹

Eve is funny 😂

I need poetry recommendations. Something sweet, cosmic, and self-reflective. Any collections have something like that?

Yeah I see why Nas made Ether; that lady husband is a HATER

Weak ass!


I’m literally rooting against this relationship. This friends to lovers needs to be friends to strangers cause he don’t care enough for me.

Tell tell tell and never show show show. How many “they’re friends and it’s platonic, but surprise he’s been captured by her from the first moment and she wants him too” are left in this book?

Idk if it’s me or this book but this has been a drag; the first 6 stories have just felt so similar that reading the one after the other feels repetitive & story 7 doesn’t feel promising. I loved each one individually but this book seems like the kind you savor bit by bit rather than all at once. I also haven’t been super focused or engrossed in reading in the last 9 months, switching to the audiobook may help.

I’ve been feeling like I want to write a Bonnie Bennett redo starting with that tomb spell, BUT I also want to do one picking up where s8 left off, that places her in a boss up & change your life narrative 🙇🏽

I have a draft but I also so many other drafts; somebody make me write, please… 😩

This epilogue is about to do some heavy lifting I assume; there’s no way Diego gets the ending he does while Mickey moved from square one to square 2.5!!!!

This writing is enjoyable, sometimes a little corny, but the plot has taken, in my opinion, two big hits and it’s very unlikely that the author will realistically do something for Mickey before the end of the book. 😕

When that moment happened, I let out an audible “bitch” and now I can’t be happy with the route Charish Reid is taking. Maybe I’m petty 🤷🏽

FINALLY!!

But now I’m worried about what’s going to happen with so much book left…

Based on the list I found this on, I’d assume there’d be more fucking 🤷🏽‍♀️

Even if the attraction was instant in the beginning, I like that the acknowledgment and follow through are taking their time building!

Gone head and fuck up his life, girl; he don’t deserve you!

“…it was them who were corrupt and would rob the poor and suppress the powerless to gain control. The wealth of the state was contingent on suffering and imprisonment.”

Sometimes the “grump” moments are actually just Diego being mean and the only reason this pairing really works is because Mickey is “always cheerful and smiling” and is very forgiving. I want to see a heartfelt apology from Diego to Mickey and his employees, once he acknowledges and accepts that he needs to work on his grief.

You can see Diego’s depression and grief has led him to a place where he struggles even more to express himself and communicate positively and effectively with others.

I guess this answers my question about how the characters respond to policy that affects them and I like it. It seems like the author keeps it light, or maybe reality in the US right now is too bleak.

Damn, perk up!

This was kind of odd, but a nice relief from *gestures to everything*. Cleo works in politics for a university town mayor—who’s a white Democrat—in Georgia and her biggest concern is drafting a statement on National Ice Cream Day and hunting permits.

This could have gone in a depressing, but more realistic direction, but I appreciate the reprieve.

Loving all of the introductions! Her mama randomly asking if they remember somebody just to immediately follow up with “well they died” lol why do they do that 😂

I’m predicting 5 stars on this and I already love how they’re both looking for change and progress in their work AND transformation of self 🧑🏽‍🍳🤌🏽💋

So I’m looking up the myths/inspirations AFTER reading the short story and the 2nd story masterfully incorporates elements of the original. I thought it was odd how she kept mentioning that specific number, thought tangentially about where I heard it before, then immediately dismissed it as coincidence 😄

I loved how well Babalola pens intensity into her character’s POVs. It’s palpable through the page. I will say story 2’s ending left me needing more; it’s felt like things were maybe kept vague to focus on the love story, but I still wanted to know the details.

I’m concerned abut why she stopped counting and is talking in the past tense 🫣🫣🫣

So before there were mass layoffs, there were mass wage cuts. Working-class people have dealt with so much BS throughout out the short life of this country. In the grand scheme, who are you as one human being to tell me I must survive on less resources than humanly possible when you thrive on more resources that are not possible for one person to consume in a lifetime? How do live while others die at your behest?

“Success came in early 1867 as the Illinois legislature enacted the first 8-hour law in the country.”

Yay Illinois! But this just supports what people are saying about labor & wage laws & protections today—all companies in the US cannot be trusted to do right by their employees, communities, or even planet without fair regulation and real consequences that leave room for nothing but real accountability.

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Erring’s Women’s Refuge - 1863, white, middle-class, Protestant women opened the refuge…Challenging legal and social inequity which punished women—but not men—for extramarital sexual relations…provided prostitutes support and resources to leave the sex industry: education, job training, obstetric care, and influence of Xtian motherhood. By 1890 became a home for delinquent girls.