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freaking behemoth of a book!

reading nothing and everything

It's time for me to grow up and start liking beets

"Until that summer, she had never felt at home in the house of her body." And how long do so many of us go without ever feeling at home?

"But the quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink. Drunk men frightened her. She had learned young how to coddle them, how to laugh just enough at their bad jokes to prevent them from feeling insulted, but not so much that her laughter egged them on. Coiled just below a surface of good humor lay their strength and their meanness, two guns waiting to go off." pg. 253

Reading entirely too many books at once (classic)

I've stalled reading this because I know how it ends...

Rereading this, but I apparently never logged the first time I read it.

Quote from page 44: "I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?"

I am finally more than halfway through!

Such an interesting read with absolutely stunning artwork

I actually finished reading, but I have so many thoughts that I must marinate on for this to get a proper review!

absolutely devouring this...these hoes are messy!

"He enjoyed winning, but he didn't feel the same gnawing ache of ambition, the bottomless pit inside me that got exactly what it wanted and then demanded more, more, more."

highly recommend this audiobook the narrator does a great job!

Libby loan being returned and now I’m on the waitlist :( Sad