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If I have to read the phrase "Little Russia" in this introduction one more time...🫩

The language we use for things affects how we treat them. Examples? Lots.

This is a more fraught re-read for a lot of reasons.

Oooo this got heavy. 😔

Sherry Thomas never disappoints. My audiobook listens have been quite gruesome as of late. I needed a lighter, more humorous literary intrigue. This is proving to be deeelightful.

Why am I pausing and looking away as if it's the first time I've read this book? 😂

...he knows that time and again he will abandon the house of his happiness, time and again abandon his paradise and the woman from his dream and betray the “Es muss sein!” of his love to go off with Tereza, the woman born of six laughable fortuities.

Let's have his appendix implode on him and wrap this whole thing up, please. I have a life to live. 🫩

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. Tomas had no defense against the lure of love, and Tereza feared for him every minute of every hour.

Enjoyment wanes.

Patriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. 😩😭😩😭

I will hate them for eternity if they let him die.

Just one more time, I think. One more, and I'll put all this craziness behind me.

Ooh brother!

The chaos and multigod section made me both reread sections of The Lesson and flip back to the front of this book and I'm experiencing another round of devastation and epiphanies on a whole other level like !!!!!!!!!

WHAT?!?!?£?£

I'm so angry at Lucy right now. 🙃

My lesbian radar never fails. 🫡

Ok but what's up with the bowler hat.

Needless to say, he found no sympathisers. His own parents condemned him roundly: if Tomas refused to take an interest in his son, then they, Tomas's parents, would no longer take an interest in theirs.

AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

This book has me *screaming*: the mix ups and the reveals are unmatched! Which helps with the gloom when it reveals all the horrors of USA's first occupation of Haiti (and the similarities to the situation there now like damn).

Ok I dunno if "help" is the word but this ancestry reveal has me rolling. *rolls*

Yo. Valcin is not fucking around.

- I will marry Guy Vanel.

– I have diamonds…

– He has my word.

– I am white.

– Silence, now this is stupid.

– Well?

– Well, I dream of art, of beauty, of poetry, of youth.

– Two million dollars would amply supplement them. [...] I place them at your disposal.

– Thanks! Pick them up quickly, because I am going to trample them.

The bars in this book. 🤣🤣🤣

Life is not always beautiful, dear child, what if your father were to pass away? What if….

– Oh, I would simply die.

– Well. That's good. But you mustn't be hostile to the mother Monsieur Desvallons is going to give you.

GuFFAW. Di nun seh, That's proper daughter behaviour just don't be mean to your stepmum before yuh dutifully expire. 🤣😭

Omg this book 😭😭😭

Everybody in Cruel Destiny is wilding.

Adeline you CAN'T be serious please stop this. 😂😭

So the Maybe Incest will be actual??? No way, Prémice need to pop up asap and tek fem family tree mash up this dolly house prep.

I'm bored and I've got a Yuri calling my name so let's try and wrap this up tonight, book.

The act of murder had bridged the gap between them...

Heartwarming

I am ready for this to wrap up if only to be done with this endless parade of white man epigraphs. I need fiction writers composing anti/de/wtfever -colonial texts to pick up what the academics are putting down about citational praxis.