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A dear friend only gave it 2.5 stars so part of me
is braced for disappointment but so far I’m deeply amused

so excited to be rereading this bit of
fun before the 4th comes out 🎉

it’s always fun when the facts are fact checking 🫠

The perfect palette cleanser. This book just makes me smile every time.

if you are prone to feeling hopeless about the state of the world then this is a book you need

very good

It’s not what I wanted and find myself disappointed

somehow I am loving this even more than I expected to - it’s what I wanted the princess bride to be

As someone who has a lot of complicated feelings about clothes and the way people judge (consciously or not) based on appearance this is a tremendously worthwhile, scholarly, and compassionate exploration

it slogs on

needed a comfort read so here we are on round two of this absurdly long but enjoyable book

this protagonist is driving me a little bonkers and the audiobook reader is not great at doing the voices and the plotting is clunky …. but yes I will still be finishing it

my southern self definitely expected a series with biscuit in the title to be set somewhere more like here and less like seattle 😆 but gotta be open to new things

——-

My love is lost
And so it stays.
I count not cost
Nor look for ways
To love again
For I love still
And love is pain
And pain is naught
And love, like light,
Cannot be caught
And sun and rain
And nights and days
My heart have tossed
A thousand ways.
For love like light,
Cannot be caught.
Fingers closed tight
Hold naught.

I love when an author manufactures a poet as a character so we can see their otherwise unacknowledged poetic prowess

——

If I could have my love
Would my love go?
If I could know my love
What would I know?—

Is what I have
All that I lose?
Is what I lose
All that I keep?
If my heart could
How would it choose?
And must it choose,
Poor heart, to weep?
——-

“Your superpower is your ability to decide how you wish to show up in the world”

“You are a huge part of all your relationships. Therefore, your perspective, behaviors, and expectations can often change how a relationship functions, even if the other person doesn’t change….. changing you is enough.”

this book asks a lot of it’s reader - but it rewards richly the time spent with it