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Starting the 2023 IWBFT fandom reread! This book should be required reading before anyone watches the Heartstopper show… I’m going to try to track all of the water/rain references, wish me luck 😅 This one’s for IANA 🥂

I had to stop last night once I got to the Auld Lang Syne chapter because I know it's going to wipe me out. However, last night I was also wiped out by the chapters on Jerzy Dudek and Harvey, so.

I really want to get back into long-form reviewing and this book seems an appropriate choice to start with. It also will probably be the last book I ever review for the Teen Press Corps? I turn 20 in October? I’ve been spotty over the last year in my submissions but I’d like to have a nice button. Might also include a review of the TPC in my review, because I love cheese.

Picked this up thinking it was an adult romance and well I was wrong but. Might as well finish it 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

With TRC book club

Read-aloud by me

Read-aloud by Cassy

listening to the audiobooks now! really lovely so far :)

i'd like this "no plot, all vibes" book if the vibes weren't bad flirting and office work (i am 98 pages in and nothing significant has happened...)

it's a lot of drama :-| but it's a lot of drama :-)!

forcing myself to read a couple of arcs which means i am not reading the raven king why am i not reading the raven king

they ate PLUMS at the BARNS !

the murder squash song is here and now it shall never go away

gansey must get his groove back!

maybe by the end i won’t absolutely despise this cover

alec time!

Never expected this book to be this long but I’m really enjoying it :-) Halfway through and I’m not completely “hooked” yet, but definitely appreciate the vibes

“No tradition overawed the boys. No convention settled what was poetic, what absurd. They were concerned with a passion that few English minds have admitted, and so created untrammelled.”

“We sat up / in bed, hearts beating fast at the way / anything alive will do anything / to keep living.”

“This morning, / more than one voice wavers / as it recounts that wave / swelling at such a distance / before its roar eclipsed the view / wiped the glass floats / clean.”

didn't realize how much i was going to miss this book until i'd finished it! reading with dracula daily made it a constant in my life, what am i supposed to do without consistent updates from my good friends jonathan and mina?

i think my parents are regretting gifting me this book (all i can talk about now is musical theatre) (i mean, even more than usual)

“and even atheists pray in a jam”

i read SO MUCH while in the airport and it was a highlight of my life this book is just great. really great. also i got to eat some barbecue sides and they were good.

“times are always lean/for those who sow like us.”

the mystery continues!

well, perhaps not “too” sad - but certainly increasingly! and i am enjoying it!

this book is too sad for me 🕺🕺🕺

i’m feeling it! damn