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Updating my extremely slow progress with the quote:

“For one of them has to keep the cheer; one of them had to be delusional. This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could anything if you were delusional.”

And I take this personally purrrrrr

Just went to an R.F. Kuang discussion/author event (and got my copy of this book signed !!!!!!) and needless to say she is such a girlboss instantly one of my fave authors AND her writing about the not-so-fun aspects of academia guises as a dark academia fantasy novel?? I’m so in >:)

Love borrowing from the library

The book is really slay queen energy so far we love to see it

Okay beauty pageant core it’s really giving Filipino <3

Also oh to eat at Tita Rosie’s Kitchen and Brew-ha Cafe 🥺

I already get why this is a must-read book - very thought-provoking and metaphorical

I love borrowing books from friends :D

Love the format of the book and also how intellectual it sounds even though it’s telling a story about such a silly trivial thing

Guess who’s starting another book because she just got her physical library card (this is an e-book so it doesn’t even matter but I got extra motivated to read again)

Okayyy Filipino Heritage Month read

Junie indeed has dug herself a deeper hole which I didn’t thought was possible but also I’m not surprised lmao

Oh this book has gotten REALLLLLL GOOD im eating this up

Every time so far I feel that June would redeem herself, she just ends up not doing that she’s lowkey insufferable (good job regardless @ R. F. Kuang I will deffo keep reading)

I’m glad that she’s self-aware but dang June is just not it : )

I’m reading this slower than I thought but I had to stop my reading to document the fact that I’m 16 pages in and there’s already so much lore this is so exciting

It’s time >:D

Okayyy things are picking up now! I still have no clue about where the mystery will take us - I have some hunches but it’s very open ended rn :) still loving how much food talk there is and how easy of a read it is! Also semi rushing to finish cuz I have to return the book in around a week haha

So far really enjoying it! Light read with the whodunnit element on the horizon/starting to build up. Can't wait to see how it progresses!

Another book added to the roster and hopefully this time I finish it in time for when I have to return it!

Elizabeth and Mad Zott keep slaying queens

(Putting this book on a pause for now but it’s okay so far lots of world building which is v typical of a Ransom Riggs book but definitely will pick up the book another time!)

Lots of time to kill at the airport rn and forgot this book was already published!

Why did *that* have to happen?? And that too, this early on in the book D:??

Such an engaging read so far that I have to keep reminding myself that this is a memoir/autobiography and all of these events have happened to the author during her life

Borrowed this e-book from my local public library and need to ‘return’ it in 2 weeks so I’m super motivated to finish it

Rlly lovely so far, no complaints at all! I like how much more depth to the other characters the book has included so far after having watched the series

We love a woman in STEM who knows her capabilities and won’t let men drag her and her work down !!!

“Stop starting and reading more books than I could handle” challenge failed

Approx percentage cuz im listening to a reading of the book

Not bad so far, initially I didn’t think too much of it and lowkey still trying to really get into it tbh could be cuz im not reading it myself as written text so maybe im not vibing as well with it