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Rachelle isn't really writing about Jack... she's barely mentioning her thesis at all. Her story is simply to show how one can get wrapped up in someone else's world and forget themself so easily.

Q saying he believes in the future (collage, job, babies) as if Margo doesn't believe in the future when she just told him that she doesn't want to die. Then, Q thinking "the future deserves our faith" when Margo said "forever is composed of nows" as if living in the present is the same as having no faith in the future. Q doesnt seem to have evolved at all actually, he has just realized Margo doesnt want what he does

This is the story of a boy, in his last week of high school, obsessed with the wild, crazy, popular, and adventourlus girl-next-door. Literally next door. Their bedroom windows face each other. When she goes missing after the best night of his life, so begins his own adventure, following her clues to figure out where she's gone off to this time. A wild, hilarious, and endearing story of last chances and change.

A book about the end of high school and the last days within the safety net of your parents. More importantly, this is a book about change. It teaches that people change and that people can BE changed. It is a book of accepting who people are and loving them anyway. It is a story of how we can never truly know anyone, not even ourselves.

Anita's voice actor is incredibly passionate and talented. She makes this audiobook so much better than it should be.

Author artfully intertwines these two women's stories so you have that little voice in the back of your head as you listen/read.... wondering if Raquel will end up like Anita. Is Raquel just going down the same path? Will she realize it before it's too late for her, too?

This should have been a book of poetry, not a novel. It is lyrical, stream-of-consciousness writing and for a novel it is absolutely excruciating to read.

This feels like a bunch of writing prompts and English class assignments that the author haphazardly put together to make a novel. It is vingettes and half-thoughts.

Why say "weathermen and women" rather than simply "meteorologists"?

None of the characters have been properly introduced so I can't remember them and I don't care about them. I'm searching for meaning within lists and hypotheticals and rhetorics.

I hope there is a plot and not just meaningless thoughts trying to sound profound. This author seems to think they're very clever and all their thoughts are so deep. I imaging a 13 year old may appreciate this book. Is it YA?

The writing style is stream-of-consciousness but it's as if the author wrote a whole bunch of side-thoughts as she was writing a short story and then decided to just keep everything and make it a novel. Other reviews said it was all lists and just 13 pages in, I already see what they mean. I am skimming the lists. I should finish quickly.

A post-covid novel with commentary about "the pandemic" throughout. The story is of a missing woman but has four narrators (one of which is the missing woman's letters). Each character reflects on their own lives within the realm of the pandemic and this missing woman.

A story about a woman who owns a nail salon. Where is Nok? One employee has been a no-show for weeks. The story is just one day. The new girl. She's nice enough. A story of immigrants serving narcissists. Narrator describes how self-centered the clients are in great detail that you can perfectly picture these entitled clients and sympathize with the narrator - the narrator who seems to hate people but loves her shop.

The narrator said she is observant and so far the writing style supports that. She describes how people move and how she nods and lifts her chin in a certain way to express enthusiasm or that she is listening. This detailed description of body language not only supports the character's main personality trait (observant) it also displays the culture the author is trying to convey.

Why tf would leaving behind a dog that can run faster than you make it faster to run to the village and drive back?

Who finally gets a call through and doesn't think to leave a freaking message on their answering machine????

I'm not finding it thrilling so much as slightly (very slightly) unnerving. Are all the people on the island female? Are they fucking with this dude? Are they all criminals? Falsely accused? In hiding? What really happened to the previous author who lived in this house? What did his wife really lie about? Where is she? What's up with noise in the mansion's upper level? When is the next ferry? I just want answers!

So far, I really like thr writing style. The descriptions of the father's and daughter's depression are so explicitly accurate. I'm very impressed but also saddened for the author that they are able to describe the feelings so accurately. I'm already emotionally attached to the characters and I do hope they can find common ground, if nothing else, in their shared suffering.

This book isn't so much about Luddism or Marxism as it is simply a short history on how the job market has been failing more each time a new technology comes into play. It is less about workers and more about how capitalism has been slowly destroying our economies and quality-of-life. It shows how the capitalist ruling class have been manipulating the masses for at least two centuries.

Part 1 complete. I'm really enjoying this book. It's even more interesting to ready about traffic flow from the perspective of a country so seemingly different than my own... and yet... not so different after all. Well written. Well researched. The themes came together in the end of Part 1 and I'm excited to see the conclusions from Part 2.

Page 52 "monkeys, our closed relatives". Page 62, using AI. Page 63-64, if we can understand bat communication better, we can understand human development better. Page 64, a general human superiority complex, discussing how the author has no hope for animals having complex languages like humans do. Honestly, I'm over this book. The narcissism, stupidity, and human superiority complex is unbearable.

Written from a New York City transportation department perspective. I'm excited to see both the political side of things in a city like none other, and examples from all over the world.

Written from the perspective of a civil engineer who though better traffic flow meant safer streets... and I guess he realized it only makes the streets safer for the people in vehicles and not for pedestrians.