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Weird ass love triangle but I am loving it… also this quote:

"I do not feel like I have any choices left to me."
Kumal nodded. "It may seem that way. But you always have a choice. You can choose to find comfort and solace in God. You can choose to be brave and compassionate. And you can choose to find beauty and happiness wherever they present themselves."

"High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you to would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar."

"The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror... Yet even these two opposites do not remain distinct. In your boredom there are elements of terror: you break down into tears; you are filled with dread; you scream; you deliberately hurt yourself. And in the grip of terror - the worst storm - you yet feel boredom, a deep weariness with it all."

"Only death consistently excites your emotions..."

“I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized.”
"No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness-how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!"

The shower scene got me giggling and kicking my feet xD

I'm ashamed to say it's 5 days shy of a year since I started reading this... and I'm not even a quarter of the way through!! Ugh I need to get my life together.

Just moved out so maybe this will be somewhat relatable. I've been reading heavy books lately so I wanna go for something a bit lighter. Romance is always a hit or miss for me so I'm gonna pray and hope for the best!!

Very very british and very very funny. It got me through my tattoo session so I'm very thankful for the high quality writing!!

Lowkey don't know what's going on but I enjoy the overall vibe of the book. Found out that Levin is a write-in of the author and it makes sense! I'm continued to be surprised how the themes translate so easily over to modern relationships and society.

It’s been too many months but I’m getting back on this bad boy. Hilarious but just so dense with information and lowkey irrelevant references that I am too young to understand :”)

The longer I read this, the more goofy it is. The characters are all so weird that they become funny.

There's no logic tying everything together and I think I'm getting a bit frustrated by how the story goes wherever it wants to.

I love the characters so far, although I find the female characters not so fleshed out as the male ones.
I relate with Levin quite a lot - his awkwardness is painful but also charming to read.

Reading this alongside The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James has been very interesting... I got to witness a double proposal (and rejection)!!! Very fun, very drama.

Enjoying this very much!!! Isabel Archer is such an interesting a respectable main character.

Trying to learn some more korean vocab by reading korean books... this one has some lovely illustrations!

"And I'm finding I believe less and less in the soul, crammed into that pathetic vessel. Sometimes I think it'd be best to douse it with oil, too, like the body and burn it all up. I mean, it's just a worthless thing whose only role is to live and suffer. So tell me, is my way of thinking wrong?"

Just cried in public a little because Nadia's dad resembles mine a bit too much :")

"She felt the sly type of racism here: longer wait times for tables, white girls who expected her to walk on the slushy part of the sidewalk, and a drunk boy outside of a salsa club yelling that she was pretty for a black girl. In a way, subtle racism was worse, 'cause it made you feel crazy."

The way that this is so accurate, it hurts.

I'm cringing :( it hurts me emotionally to read this book but also it's too relatable.

Rebecca is an ENFP 7w6 793

Some of the action scenes in this give me whiplash but I'm enjoying the drama... if you count drama as me cringing at every character's bad decisions. It's just a big hot mess (not the book, the characters).

"No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars..."

4 stars for The Tombs of Atuan!

Really enjoying this. I live alongside "Leb" culture, but am an outsider to it. It feels so interesting to peek into the inner workings of it all - admittedly in a voyeuristic way; I don't think my immigrant group acknowledges this one much in a kind way, and vice versa.

Miller's writing is so beautiful... Strangely her California accent does not engage with the material as I did when I could only read her words myself. Her soft timbre implies more hesitance in her tone than I expected.

Main character is actually tripping. So out of pocket. I can't wait to see what kind of drama he makes up next :)

My stomach is churning from all the dangerous accidents happening... This is genuinely unnerving.

I'm honestly enjoying this audiobook so much (Laurel Lefkow did an amazing job with the narration) so I got very confused by the negative reviews. Perhaps the book was advertised to the wrong audience? Personally I find the pop culture references interesting. Yeah, it's Twitter literature, but it's strange that people had such high expectations on this being an academic powerhouse or something.

This feels like its going in the direction of The Pisces... but I really hope it doesn't. Please 😭

ok how did the universe know i was in a baby kind of mood because I am crying tears at work right now

I don't think I'm smart enough for this book. But also, I feel like that might have been the point??