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“Isn’t love a form of hope?”
“No. Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril despite your better sense.”

“The truth has nothing to do with the facts”

“I’ve noticed that about people who’ve had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems”

As a xennial, I wasn’t sure how much I would have in common with the author but I was happily surprised at how relatable this whole book was! Kennedy was so unexpectedly vulnerable page after page. She allowed the reader to enjoy the nostalgia of a generation while also pointing out some of the causes of our struggles. Highly recommend for xennials!

3.5 ⭐️

DNF at page 145. This book reads slow and the characters are not very likeable. The promos suggested it was like “Gilmore girls meets practical magic”. Not only is not anything like either, but it’s clearly trying too hard. The attempts at magic and witty banter were painful to read. Maybe this would be enjoyable for someone else who doesn’t love GG/ Practical Magic, but it definitely doesn’t hold up.

4.5 ⭐️

I have never related so much to a MMC. I feel so seen

I know there have been a lot of mixed reviews about this book. It’s a wild ride with events that, as a nurse, just couldn’t and wouldn’t happen. But it’s still an amazing debut piece by a young author with massive potential. I can’t wait to see what else Lancali comes up with.

“It’s an ordinary week within the most extraordinary circumstances because apparently, and this what everyone fails to to mention about the grieving process, I still have to live.”

I can’t continue reading this one anymore. It’s just not my cup of tea

I’m so bored. Sorry, Harry.

I’ve only just begun but I’m already dying at the idea of aliens coming across this book 😂

“…’When 13 Scions have Awakened & claimed Squires, the scion of Arthur will lead the Round Table against the demon plague in a deadly battle.’ This war is called Camlann…where many of the final knights were killed. It is the battlefield where Arthur fell..& the Round Table was broken- forever. If a fully Awakened Arthur is struck down by Shadowborn blood, the Legendborn Lines will be broken forever too.”

Only a third in, but I am in awe at the massive undertaking this book must have been for Kuang. It’s such a beautiful and deep look at language.

“I’d always written how grief was hollow, how it was a vast cavern of nothing. But I was wrong, grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning. Because it wasn’t the absence of everything you lost. It was the culmination of it all. Your love, your happy, your bittersweets wound tight like a knitted ball of yarn.”

“Quit beating yourself up for having a skill deficit when what you really have is a support deficit. Main point: self care was never meant to be a replacement for community care” “…doing the best I can with what I have.”

“We are not going to fix the earth by sharing people out of adaptive routines they need to function. The goal is then to take steps to reduce them. First to self, then to individuals around us, then to community. You cannot jump right to community harm reduction without first addressing individual harm reduction. Harm reduction is always ethical.”

“You don’t exist to serve your space, your space serves you.”

Hooked at the intro.