Amanda (abookishinvasion) > Recent Status Updates

485 pages I’ve DESPISED him and now 1 page I’ve started to understand him…HE CANNOT BE REDEEMABLE I REFUSE 😭

I’ve been screaming in FURY for the last 30 pages

“Thank the Gods she was a monster.”

“You might look like a decorative flower, but you’re more sword than anything else.”

“The carceral state depends on a dichotomy between innocent and guilty…so that they can define harm on their terms, in the name of justice, and administer it on a massive scale to support a capitalistic, violent, and inherently inequitable system.”

ASGBFJJFDHHDSFJJVY!

The inclusion of factual accounts of people who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to the death penalty really hits different.

The disgust I’m having for Wil’s POV

“It was all death, slow or fast. Painful or sudden. Nothing more. The culture of Chain-Gang was death.”

“She showed them that she, the Hurricane, was capable of great love, and that if they’d look they’d see they were too. And maybe someday they would understand what they enabled, what they’d created.”

Pausing at 10% until I can get a physical copy bc I think it will be a better reading experience.

Less than 10% in and I already feel that this book is too smart for me 😂

Terry don’t eff around 😂

That was unexpected…

“Smart cookie. I am smart, but I am not a snack object dispensed from a packaged food machine. What a preposterous thing to say.”

I can’t get the image of Marcellus wearing a top hat and an eye glass out of my head.