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I love when the audiobook is old enough that it still says "end of disc..." a shot of nostalgia to the veins!!

I don't know why but I get the urge to re-read this one every few years, always in May 🤷🏿‍♀️

My 13 yr old self would've hated me for saying this but dang... I think this series is becoming too British for me 😬 like the dry wit was fun at first but it's staring to wear on me. It's like trying to have a conversation with someone wearing a 'I'm fluent in sarcasm' tshirt. Like, brother, you aren't being quirky & funny, you're being annoying & exhausting

I looove Anne Tyler! Her writing is so homey, her characters so lived in, so beautiful in their ordinary-ness. It's all just so exactly right 🥲

This book is mad depressing.... very curious about the mind who wrote this- like, what have you been through that gave birth to this story?

I swear Anne Tyler writes books just for me. How did she know exactly what I was wanting to read?

In love with C.S. Lewis' brain...like I'm fully in a parasocial friendship with a man whose been dead for 60 years 😬

Everyone is getting on my nerves. Every single one 😬

As a younger sister of a sister and therefore girl's girl to my core, Lenu & Lila's friendship makes me so sad. Like why can't they fully support each other in the bad and the good? Why the constant competition and comparison? The world around them is so harsh, everyone so violent... I want better for them 💔 the storytelling is so beautiful, so captivating. Makes me want to learn Italian

I wasn't sure at first but now I'm totally immersed. It's reminding me of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. This next part is a public service announcement to my sister, all others disregard...
HANNAH, IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS, PLEASE, YOU GOTTA PICK THIS BOOK UP SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!!¡!

This book is embarrazzing....like yikes sis

I started off the year so strong and can now hardly finish anything 😮‍💨 but I keep starting new books?? What is wrong with me?????

I forgot how funny this book is- like I had to pause the audiobook because I couldn't hear it over my laughing

Suddenly finding the courage to finish this at 10:30 on the night before it's due on Libby 😬 please pray for me lol

6 days until my loan on Libby is up and I need to finish it but I'm still terrified. Please send help 🙏🏿

The amount of references to U2 is actually astounding

I was thinking to abandon this one but got a second wind (mostly because I'm afraid of the Kite Runner 😬) it's sort of pretentious but I mean, it's Oxford so it's true to form lol

I have a little over 2hrs left in the audiobook and cannot muster up the strength to finish it. This book is so emotionally assaulting

"It isn't easy to name what I felt; as a child, I was immersed in feeling without name..."

"I felt no feeling, and at any time of day would burst into tears severed from sadness, a physical racked sobbing like my body had to wretch it out even I my mind could not..."

This is brutal 💔

I fear I may be reading too many books at once 😅

Aimee Bender's writing is the exact type of magic my heart has been craving

Math is way more poetic than I've given it credit for...

As it turns out, if you have a book that lays flat and a simple pattern, it's completely possible to read and knit at the same time 💃🏿📚🧶

Realizing that reading two extremely depressing books at the same time and during the first month of winter may not have been the best move...

8 minutes into the audiobook and already getting teary 🥺 love this book!

I accidentally took a nap while reading this and had the weirdest, trippiest dream and it took me like 5 minutes to convince myself that I hadn't woken up in a different space time continuum. So yeah... this book is messing with me heavy 😬😅

I remember a few things here and there about this one but not the story entirely which is perfect because I feel like I'm reading it again for the first time. Only 2 chapters in and I feel like I've stumbled onto holy ground... like I picked this one up at the exact right time

I knew it was going to be sad but duude... this is brutal