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update on items used as bookmarks i have found while reading my mom's books: handwritten budget (1991), dry cleaning pick up slip (1991), caltrain/bart month-long fast pass (august 1990), and the newest item is a receipt from the vet's office from shortly before our cat died (july 2010) :\

this book has PICTURES in it !!

idk how i've never read this one

HALFWAY THROUGH
marius is a much more sympathetic character in the book than the musical/movie

my dad wants me to read this (this is SUCH a dad book omg)

i made it through the napoleon part and this book is so beautiful omg im in love *wanders off mumbling something about symbolism*

ask me why i keep reading rlly long novels with a billion pages abt napoleon in the middle of the plot IDC ABT NAPOLEON IDW READ 248729 PGS ON THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO CAN WE GO BACK TO COSETTE WHERE DID THE PLOT GO

here we GO

im p sure my grandma was friends with/knew the author of this book & that's why we have it

done with The Flies:
4/5 bc the ending?

done with No Exit:
so that like! made me really uncomfortable! 4?/5

I MADE IT TO THE NEW TESTAMENT

im officially less than a month behind my chapters/day goal from... last year... (idk why i do this to myself, idk what "starting fresh" means tho so)
ALSO apparently im easily influenced and i started doing that trend where u embroider smth on a shirt for every book u read and im horrid at embroidering (cause i just started) but we vibing so it's cool

MY SISTER SPOILED SOMETHING IN THIS BOOK THAT I HAVENT GOTTEN TO YET AND I AM NOT OK (i cried real tears)

just finished copying down quotes from 28 books i had bookmarks in for 4 years bc im lazy and i REALLY need to reread When Breath Becomes Air before i start med school but i Dont Know if im strong enough bc im crying from just the pages i marked *dies*

every time i think i understand something i realize im really really lost

i have officially decided to start reading the 89374962 books i own on the physical bookshelf in my room and not just the 72438230 books i have checked out from the library next to my bed

i think im confused? idk where the plot is

<100 pgs lefttttttt
I?????? us????? omg the extent to which i do NOT care about alexander or napoleon

part 12>>>>
how can you write one of the most beautiful deaths ive ever read and then go straight back to ranting about the course of history and napoleon like shut UP

blah blah blah philosophy of history blah blah blah mob mentality blah blah blah more history philosophizing blah blah im just here for the DRAMA pls

agh MORE WAR????
julie & boris are the biggest pick mes ever
OMG KISSING
we officially > halfway through

- poor wolves and foxes and bunnies :(
- too many ppl named nikolay/i

there's a lot more war than peace in here .... >.>

also i like how we just started referring to the russian military as "ours"

i timed my life wrong and now can't read the 7th harry potter book till late december because it won't fit in my suitcase & im carrying war & peace onto the plane w me in my hand like the performative pick me i am :)
(only chose it bc it will def last me through december while harry potter... would not)

I FINALLY DID IT OMG
i finally completed my (non-goodreads) reading goal from last yearrrrrrrrrr my goal was to read minimum of 2ch/day for every day of the year
and at one point i was like 3 months behind but i rolled it over into this year AND TODAY I CAUGHT UP WITH TODAY OMG
now to just actually read 2ch/day every day this year so this doesn't happen again..

number one reason i like reading my mom's old books: finding things she used for bookmarks.
so far i've found:
• handwritten budget (1991)
• dry cleaning pick up slip (1991)
• caltrain/bart month-long fast pass (august 1990)

number one reason i like reading my mom's old books: finding things she used for bookmarks.
so far i've found:
• planned budget from (1991)
• dry cleaning pick up slip (1991)
• caltrain/bart month-long fast pass (august 1990)

annotating it this time... writing in a book still feels like a sin