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some of the passages in here sound like "everything is romantic" by charli xcx

A lot of detail going on 😭 9 million plant species named as quickly as possible

This man is pacing around on his wedding night after sending his sister wife to bed... You're supposed to be doing some consummation, not waiting up for a MAN (thats lowkey your son)

Them going to Ireland was kinda so random

Checked this out from the library because clover’s friend laur likes it 🤩

The OCD segment about microbes was NOT necessary for me to hear I have to forget about that before I start getting scared.
The chapter 15,16,17 trilogy about Henry had me feeling every emotion imaginable

I get that we had to learn at some point so we could all understand, and I'm talking from a privileged place in the future... but some of these old people are so dumb my god

I thought this was going to just be an interesting history lesson but its actually deeply upsetting wow

I finished this back in October but never wrote anything about it, does anyone care orrrr

now at my favorite part of the book

Rereading for a book club

I’ve made it to the part of the book that was adapted into the movie!

I'm trying something different...

Day 1 of her campaign and you can already see the cracks. Immediately she falls for Trumps bait when he calls her "more radical than Joe Biden" its clear that bothers her, and I assume its why she leans into working with republicans later in her campaign. Her teams strategy of utilizing social media directed at different generations is smart, but as she leans farther right the Gen z led tiktok doesn't really help

Doing some research... The first 40 min about the Biden debate and the day Joe dropped out are pretty interesting. You can tell that Kamala is holding back some deeper opinions becasue she kinda wants to run again lol. but I find it intriguing to read (listen) between the lines at the things she likes and dislikes

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Genuinely ended a story thinking "what are you even talking about?"
the last few stories have this writing style where everything has a "big" fancy descriptor word in front of it. It makes me unable to tell what the point of the words on the page mean, like I'm doubting my ability to even read because I really couldn't make sense of what exactly I was supposed to be understanding.

A lot of abusive/neglectful fathers

I never fully enjoy short story collections idk why I keep reading them