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ughhhh this book isn't bad i just don't like it

Disclaimer: haven't seen the movie
Listening to this after the secret history is just what the doctor ordered

This book is taking me forever to get through and might be the first on my did not finish list for book club 🤦‍♀️

I had no clue until I was browsing a charity shop that a film I loved was a book first. Really slow-moving, and may have frustrated me had I not already known roughly where it’s going

Still hate that there isn’t chapters.

Kinda like it kinda hate it.

Say psych right now y’all. Wtf is this? Lmao

cherry jones reading me practical magic 🫶🏾

loving this so far!

It flows really well but I hate that there is hardly any good stopping points and no chapters.

I have never read this OR even seen the movie. So here we go I guess…

endlessly sweet and blueeeee

I am reeeeally struggling to get through it. The writing is terrible.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. As soon as you let go of it, pride shrinks to the size of a fly, but one that has no head, and no tail, and no wings with which to lift itself off the ground.

I cannot express how surface level this book is

. . . she was thinking about flowers, those white ones shaped like bells . . .

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I already don’t like the book. I have a preconceived notion in my mind of what everything should look like and it’s not this.

Also hate the fact that it’s just parts not chapters. My adhd hates that I can’t finish one part in a sitting.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

“The lilacs had gone absolutely wild since Gillian’s arrival, as though paying homage to her beauty and her grace, and had spilled out from the backyard to the front, a purple bower hanging over the fence and the driveway.”

“On especially hot days, when you’d like to murder whoever crosses you, or at least give him a good slap, drink lemonade instead.”

I’m soooooo bored….

In the mood of witchcraft and escaping this horrible world, even if it's for 286 pages.

This book is pretty different from the movie so far but I love it all the same. Alice Hoffmann’s writing style when it comes to the craft is TOP TIER

"She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with."

The movie is better!

Halfway update: I like it but like…is anything gunna happen? Feel like the story isn’t going in the direction I thought it would. Kinda just getting into something juicy but I’m already halfway in, pacing feels kinda off

"At that moment, he was everything he could have been, if they hadn't given into him night and day, if they had once suggested that he get a job or act with kindness or think about someone other himself."

"She was thoughtful and deep, with amazing powers of concentration...Boys who dated Sally in highschool were astounded by how long she could concentrate on a single kiss, and they couldn't help but wonder what else she might be capable of."

I’ve committed, there’s no turning back now

The introduction for this special edition was so illuminating and fun to read.

I’m enjoying every word and love this style of this story telling. Wonderfully magical.

Not really feeling the love for this book. Debating if I should keep reading