Bookates’s Reviews > One Last Shot > Status Update

"Sometimes it feels like everything is easier for other people. There are kids like that at school. Kids who just seems to glide along, everything going according to some prewritten script. Straight As. Lots of friends. Varsity sports. Lead in the school play. I imagine the parents of those kids brag about them constantly."

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"The insides were lined with some kind of fur. Hopefully fake. I'd hate to think something had died just so I could stand in left field and fantasize about eating candy."

Malcolm T__T

"The sharp pain in my stomach was gone, but it had been replaced with something else, a heaviness, like cement just starting to harden."

I relate so much to him. Every pre-competition feels like your intestines were knotted to eo and then came the result -- losing, The disappointment is there but not for urself but for the people rooting for u
:< and that's where the cement-feels like kicks in haha.

I love this entire wholesome convo between Malcolm and his mom🥹. IN SHORT, I LOVE HIS MOM'S CHARACTER SO MUCH. SHE'S TOO EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT AND DEF KNOWS THE RIGHT WORDS TO SAY AND WHAT TO ASKED TO HIS SON😩🥹🫶.

Bookcheating is when you start reading this random middle-grade book u borrowed from ur sister's and unexpectedly got hooked with the story that u eventually had to pause reading the other book u promised u'll finish reading this week. Def guilty😩🤚