Angel Chiou > Recent Status Updates

"The symbolic order--the paper publications, the applause, the job postings, the grants--was not the point. Even the Oxbridge credentials, which Alice's ex had assumed were solely what she was after, were not the point. Those were only instrumentally valuable to secure what Alice really wanted, which was unhampered time and access to the necessary resources to think."

"This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional."
Ouch, that was too close to home.

"At NM, love was temporary. We could never forget that we were FWs. For us, love was only permitted within the constraints of a contract and a fixed term. Accidents happened when you mistakenly assumed that you were somehow special. To our clients, we were all the same."

"...I still didn't understand men. They seemed to have as many personalities as they had sperm. The more I tried to get to know them, the less I seemed to understand. But whenever I would start to give up, I'd suddenly see a glimmer of hope, only to be let down again."

“A man cannot be expected to be faithful to a wonderful mother and a good wife—such concepts lack the compulsion of the erotic.”
This book may turn out to be one of my favorite novels.

What a slow start. But things finally started to get interesting.

Time truly flies when I’m reading this book.

oooooh, I do like me some drama.

FINALLY we set sail!!

At this point, there’s still not much to do with the cruise ship.

"Touching his skin was like touching his past. All that Australian sunlight that streamed onto his beautiful body and his previous life. His life before New York, his life before me. It was suddenly unbearable to think of Ru living a life of any kind in the past or the future before me."
Oooooooh, nice.

Eira: "What do you think is different about first romantic heartbreak? Like why does it feel like that's in a category of its own?"
Ru: "It's usually the first taste any one of us get of being rejected for who we are."
I really like that

“When you grow up with sick parents, sickness feels like love.”

Ooooh, interesting!

Finally, back in this world.

The progress of the plot is a bit slower than I’ve imagined, but I’m not complaining!

“It’s the sad conclusion I arrive at each time. I often try to take a lover. These rendezvous have only one aim: to ease the romantic pressure that weighs entirely on my husband by dividing it among several people.”
Have you ever love someone so much that you HAVE to have an affair? So deliciously unhinged.

You could say listening to this book is my “kilty” pleasure. (Yes, I’ve been wanting to make this joke since I’ve started this book.)

Eerily unsettling, just how I like it!

Sadly, nothing interesting so far. The premise of the story is so promising though!!

Let the revenge begin!!

"Between her raincoat and her smile, she was sunshine. And sunshine never went unnoticed in Scotland."
Awww. I think I'm going to like this book.

Now THIS is the action-packed story I wanted!

Finally things are getting interesting!

The story is moving much more slowly than I had expected. What a pity.

FINALLY something that’s not in the blurb happens!!

This had proven to be more interesting than I thought it could be.

I knew Viggo Mortensen would not just take on any film. Of course it had to be the one with the most difficult to read original text.

I think I’m too dense to understand the moral behind the stories—that is if there is one.