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i am sobbing my eyes out

Dnf @ 27%. Don’t think the premise is interesting to me. Also, they fell in love in just about one day

They were going to make concentration camps?? Oh my god

Nevermind the phrase “primal instinct” was used, I’m going to read this to critique it now

I was genuinely so close to dropping this book because I see sparks of instalove and the characters aren’t very interesting, but there was a bit of stabby stabby so I’ll keep reading. I think it’s unlikely that I will read the rest of the series tho. Let’s see

ack the suspense

This book is now tolerable after Chapter 12. But why did it take so long? If I wasn’t reading this for a book club, I would have dropped it already.

I just want this cringefest to end

“We are so determined to learn what lies beyond our grasp that we have figured out how to ride a rocket out of the atmosphere. A thrilling ability that seems ripe to attract cowboys, but is best done by people like her. Nerds.”

Help me

Marcelle from Aleppo’s story was amazing. Her mother was shot and killed (on accident) at a security checkpoint, but she turned her mother’s funeral into a silent protest, asking everyone to come in white tshirts and with red roses. The security forces were outside, but they couldn’t come in and shoot everyone because they were carrying red roses.

I am on part III, Revolution. I feel chills hearing their accounts of the protests, “God is Great. Freedom! Freedom!”

I’m scared!

Ngl the prologue almost lost me. But the ton and character changed in chap 1 and now my curiosity is piqued.

This book has changed the way i view everything! I was searching up a question on Google and got annoyed that i was getting some results that weren’t good at all. Then i realized that when google changed their search result algorithm a bit ago, they made it a bit harder for us to find exactly what we needed so we spend more time using the platform! Ofc they wouldn’t want us to find the answer instantly.

“All this frenetic digital interruption is ‘pulling our attention away from our thoughts,’ and ‘suppressing your default mode network.... I think we're almost in this constant stimulus-driven, stimulus-bound environment, moving from one distraction to the next.’ If you don't remove yourself from that, it will ‘suppress whatever train of thought you had.’”
Book excerpt with quotes from Markus Raichle

“I felt like everywhere I went, I was surrounded by people who were broadcasting but not receiving. Narcissism, it occurred to me, is a corruption of attention-it's where your attention becomes turned in only on yourself and your own ego.”

I hope I’m never a person who reaches for their phone before their children