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“(The only thing I knew for sure was that she did have a name and a life that exceeded the frame in which she was captured.)” made me put the book down and breathe deeply.

Enjoying Ged

Apparently reading “LESS” broke me of my ability to read so I’m going to see if Le Guin can fix it

It took like... idk 50pgs for me to really get hooked but I am now.

Honestly was worried this book had been too hyped for me to enjoy it but I’ve never loved fictional men more than these (also I am both Alex and Nora this will surprise zero people)

I’m listening to the audiobook and it’s rare I like an audiobook but I do really like this one! (I didn’t know anything about the story going into it and frankly I’m not sure there’s a plot really and usually I just want books that are ‘everything’s happening all the time’ but I like this weird fictional oral history energy??)

Idk i got mad at how she was talking about softball and slowed down on my reading of it

I lost it!!! Idk where the book is!!!! Help!!!!!

I’m mad!!!! And also Penn is mentioned by name as being terrible which is not surprising but we hate them!!!!

i've read two stories so far which is two more short stories than i read last year i'm pretty sure

Stressed

Ah yes, a woman who is “crocheting” with a “needles”. Please learn the difference in crochet and knitting im begging everyone to stop making my eye twitch

I’m listening to the audiobook and the narrator is Trini Alvarado who has a voice I could listen to for one million years. Also I certainly relate to being told to act/look like a lady and having no interest in doing so.

What the fuck!!!!

Oh my god a Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes reference I haven’t thought about that book in years

I’m hooked let’s keep it going

This is messing with my head it’s TOO REAL

I wish I were enjoying this more!!! It’s very slow. Whoever compared it to LOTR was correct in that i also thought LOTR was too slow and I wanted Frodo to just get a move on my god

“There is magic, too, in routines” tru

Sure just throw in a dead sibling for traumatic backstory no big

I knew it was coming it stressed me out anyway ahhhhhhh

This is easily one of my top books this year

Stop letting me read books with siblings who die without telling me there are siblings who die!!!! Spoil the thing idc

The book is good so far

mainstream pro-choice movement is "neoliberal tradition that locates individual rights at its core... this emphasis on individual choice however, obscures the social context in which individuals make choices and discounts the ways in which the state regulates populations... and exercises control over sexuality, gender, and reproduction" (quoted from UR quoting Policing the National Body)

This book is very relevant to immigration in America right now and the language and policies around it.

I haven’t had this many emotions about a romance novel since Right of First Refusal and have never identified so much with both characters at the same time jsksnfksbfk

Listen I’m already stressed about not having the sequel RIGHT NOW

“Just because your father’s present doesn’t mean he isn’t absent” phewwwwww