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"We look away from girls' anger and collude in the systems that erode their sense of worth, then we turn around and wonder what it is about their nature that makes them so lacking in their confidence as women."


Yesyesyesyes

"Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head."

Ishmael talking about writing about whales: "Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms!"

He's soooo dramatic I love him

Critics: "Herman Melville is one of the greatest writers of all time!!"

Herman Melville: spends half a page talking about how you can't pull a whale on his nose cuz they don't have any

"What precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to say. [...] My opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really be used by the Narwhale - however that may be - it would certainly be convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets."

Moby Dick is placed cozily next to Lolita in the category "Books You Don't Expect to Be Funny"

V intimidated but shout out to Aike and Gus who convinced me this book is super fun, actually

Sarah baby for the love of god can you please stop saying "my bowels turned watery"

Just when some of the characters developed a semblence of depth, here comes fuck ass cartoony villain ass Amarantha

Quite boring and none of it makes sense but somehow I can't stop myself from reading

Let's go girls

Can we pleaaaaase start referring to cool people as "cats" again

OOOOOOOOOOOH I GET IT

OK N.K. Jemisin has redeemed herself after The City We Became 🫶🫶

If Pride and Prejudice can be summarised as "just a bunch of people going to each other's houses" then Trainspotting can be summarised as "just a bunch of people going to pubs"

Fuck yeah all my hours of watching people on Love Island UK with heavy Scottish accents prepared me for this moment

Hello every sentence has at least two words that I don't understand help

This book is skinning me alive and I love every second of it

Seriously forcing myself to finish it atp but the end is near

Almost halfway and most of it is just exposition and introduction, in a way that's quite repetitive. Hope it picks up soon cuz I'm boooored

I'm already pissed off and will continue hate reading

Giving up on it for now. It was a good read but I have other books that interested me more and it has to go back to the library.

I'm starting to think that I just don't really enjoy stories with children as the main characters. It comes across as an easy way to pull on your heart strings most of the time.

18 pages in and I'm already crying

Wasn't vibing with the Dutch translation so I jumped ship to the OG version

I'm giving up on this book, at least for now. I just really don't care about any of the characters or anything that's happening. I don't like how it's translated. I don't think it's a bad book or anything, it's just underwhelming for me personally.

Ik had ook een Bumble match met de auteur dus dit voelt als verplichte kost

It reads like a translation [derogatory]

Oh no :( a man cheats and can't chose between his wife and his mistress :( let's all feel so very sorry for this poor fellow

Aw shit here we go again

(alternative title: seeing if my 20-year old self was right to be super impressed by this book)