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This book was wonderful when I read it as a child. It is more delightful still as an adult.

This eulogy for the author is lovely
https://www.hbook.com/story/in-memori...

this is about repressed grief and fear of change and how times change

Constantly horrified and upset

This is so horrifying I never want to experience something like this again

Okkk we're getting somewhere and lowk I just needed a comfy reading position

I keep picking this book up and putting it back down... The writing is so delicious but I can't tell if I'm bored or disturbed (probably a little bit of both)

This book is killing my soullllll I need it to be done

I am just so bored of this book but I need to finish it... don't wanna dnf but idgaf about Eve Babitz and her escapades... Shocking and upsetting

THIS IS SO GOOD AND SO SO FUNNY AND WELL WRITTEN,

ESPECIALLY AFTER THE OTHER BOOK I JUST READ, which is literally just the sort of enlightened, self righteous book the characters in Colored Television would write.

How is everyone in this book so one dimensional while also being so aware of every trope and stereotype ever

UK Pakistani ex Muslim goes to Iraq to save ISIS brides not knowing a single thing about Iraq or ISIS or brides. This is so deeply embarrassing

She just unironically said "my breasts, juicy and wobbly as caramel panna cottas, swelled over the v-neck of my jumper." I couldn't believe it. I fear this might be a dnf.

I dont mean to be a hater but why do all the UN officials in this book speak and act like they're in middle school

I'm reading this with the audiobook and it's insufferable I fear

This is such an arresting book.

Haven't read fantasy or YA in YEARS, so I'm excited for this

This book put me in a reading slump and I am finding it impossibly difficult to get through it

Started reading this for the arranged marriage stuff but now I'm having to put it down every 5 minutes to cry a little because I hate growing up and the thought of losing my parents lol anyway

i have my problems w this book, but i think i would've enjoyed it more if i didn't have to speed-read it while listening to the audiobook at 2.30x to get through it in time for class.

I just can't get into this book. It's sucking the life out of me. Might dnf

This book is stressing me out. I can't tell if I'm bored or if I am simply unable to enjoy it because it hits too close to home. I want to stop reading but feel like I need to keep going lmao

The audiobook narrator is so so so bad with pronounciations

I don't want to talk to anyone I want to sit in silence and think about how perfect this book is and how I'm not ready for it to end

"It's strange to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore."

As a current youngest kind of adult, I'm so scared of what this book is going to do to me.

i'm so uncomfortable but i can't look away

This book is bad for my napping/oversleeping tendencies

idk why but this book is doing NOTHING for me

Wasn't expecting to sob in Kirsten's arms because of the feelings this book triggered tonight but here we are