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damn! also, how does everything i read somehow relate back to something else im learning about in that moment (i’d share what but it’s kinda a spoiler)

broke my accidental fiction nighttime reading hiatus !!

stayed up way later than intended. i like this book. i feel very seen in each of its characters for different reasons. honestly, i feel seen in its main protagonists/narrators. damn!

im liking this book and im hoping there are enough pages left to make what i want to happen happen (i want two characters to get together and one character to meet another)

hoping i don’t need to recognize any of the names the narrator is throwing around bc idk if a) they’re real ppl that existed or b) they were just made up for the book and c) if i even care

there’s one detail the narrator keeps bringing up that i don’t remember reading about and can’t find when i skim through what ive already read, and im left wondering if this is like what it was with my last book where they’re referring to something i’m not supposed to know yet

reading books above YA makes me feel stupid because there are so many words i recognize but can’t remember the definition of 😭 the temptation to give myself vocab words of the week is real

i think i’m gonna like this book? curious to see if the “the blond-haired boy is never the love interest in the end, but the brunette is” trope rings true for this book, as i suspect it will. i don’t like the cover.

intrigued. a little worried i’m gonna be googling a ton this book because i do not have the background knowledge related to scotland or appalachia ? interested to see how this book handles wwii and the holocaust (and if the holocaust is even mentioned??)