Status Updates From The Piper's Son

not 20 pages in and already ready to cry!!!

what is with this author and always making me cry

have already gotten teary... 🥲

I can fix him

How can a book make me feel all these emotions

Trusting the process when it comes to Melina Marchetta's books is the one and only choice

georgie’s a regina spektor fan 😌😌😌

the opening of chapter twelve remains the worst

officially back on my bullshit

Waiting for Tara to come home...

I wouldn't forgive his father either. 😞

I hope nothing happens to Georgie's baby. 🥺

Ended 2023 with Marchetta, might as well start the new year with one, too.

i hate to read this at a snails pace i want to devour it in one sitting

'He travels home by bus most days, because the trip is ten minutes longer and most of his time is spent trying to avoid being on his own or trying to not look like he's on his own. (...) It's the joy of smoking for him. Isolation doesn't have to be explained when you're leaning against a brick wall with a cigarette in your hand. Rolling your own is better. It takes more time and Tom has all the time to spare.'

don't judge me for how many times ive already read this - tara and tom make ME of all people believe in love. do u know how fucking hard that is? (not very just uncommon in straight romance lol)

tara finke i am kissing you on the forehead
thomas mackee i am punching you in the gut <3

DNF

I cried at the same place every time and made myself motion sick on the train.

“I don’t recall the word dick or head being in Frankie’s text to us that day you turned up at the Union. As you pointed out, I have a brilliant memory, and the exact words were, I think we’re getting our Tom back.”
/uglycrying

“You made me dance with you in drama class during one of Ortley’s ridiculous ‘freeing ourselves’ sessions.”
He nods.
“I asked you later why you got me to dance, and you said it was because...”
He nods again. “You always looked sad.”
“So did you, Tom. That’s why I took you up on it. Because back then, even before your uncle died, you looked as sad as I did. Except you were better at hiding it.”

The dual narratives, emotional characterizations, this book is so good so far.

"it's a love story, Tommy," he told me. "it's a love story between [...] every member of their family." thesis of this book !

I read a few words and then there are tears, I don’t know if I’m hormonal or the book is that good, I think it’s both.

It’s like every line she writes punches my heart. It hurst, but it’s a good type of hurt, I think..

5% is all it took for me to fall in love with this damn book.

the small snippets of will trombal are helping me through life

we meet again marchetta

“Maybe it’s because he hasn’t had a cigarette for a week. Maybe it’s because he’s seen Anabel and his mum and spoken to Georgie. Maybe it’s because Tara Finke is his girl, but all of a sudden, Tom feels as if he can breathe properly for the first time in a long time.”

“Maybe she’d always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.”

“Am I worth the hard w —?”
“Yes,” he says before she finishes. “Yes.”