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Still a whole lot of nothing going on! There’s bits where the writing is really interesting then it goes back to being boring. 🙃

Getting a bit bored and wish we could get to the good stuff already

A slow start but still interesting

فجأة خطرت في بالي أحس يا ايرين يا وينتر والستينية مجرد تمويه ولا هي harmless وامرأة حزينة لا أكثر.

“It was really not until I began engaging with my followers face to face - hearing their stories, listening to the words they use to describe their own feelings - that I discovered how to do this in a way that connects with them, that really resonates.”

“I found it hard to write about batting with the blues in an authentic way. But I had no choice. Women like me are expected to pick at emotional scabs for popular entertainment; we're meant to have a rich back catalogue of anxieties, insecurities and failures that we can draw upon in podcasts and Instagram posts.”

“You make a series of small decisions in your twenties and they slowly bind you until they become a straightjacket.”

I think I picked up this too soon!

ياكثر الأحداث الصادمة بس!

DNF at 26%. totally not into a influencer plot.
sp far nothing happened

“And other days you'll write something you like but find yourself wondering whether this new novel is going to turn out too different from the first book. And the longer you have spent on a book, the more the pressure builds up, and the higher you imagine everyone's expectations are going to be ...”

“And maybe that is why writing a second book is hard. Because just writing a book suddenly does not seem like such an achievement any more. And some days you'll write something you really like but then you find yourself wondering whether it is too much like something you wrote in the first book.”

“And you finish it. And you are delighted with yourself just for having finished it. And when you send it to an agent and they like it too you are so delighted with the book and with yourself that you walk around humming for days. And then someone says they want to publish it. And then suddenly you are a writer, a real writer, a soon-to-be-published writer.”

“You have an idea one day and you sit down that evening and start writing and what you are writing turns out pretty good and so you keep going and by the end of the week you have five thousand words and by the end of the month you have twenty thousand words. You show it to some close friends and they really like it so you keep going.”

“The thing no one tells you about your first novel is that it is by far the easiest one you'll ever write. You're young. You're arrogant.”

“We are all just women - women trying to do enough, be enough, have enough without ever having it all. Women smiling through the tiny tears, trying not to add our own frustrated sobs to the screaming tantrums.”

“I can vividly recall announcing to my mother over the Phone that I had met my soulmate.”

“One of those people you want to impress. One of those people who get every reference before you have even finished making it. Who have that magic that makes everyone else in a room recede into the distance. Who have you saying things you've never told anyone within two hours of meeting them. Who change the way you look at life.”

“She is still unlike anyone else I've ever met. Not just the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on, but the funniest, the cleverest, the sharpest, the most ambitious. One of those people you know you need to be on your best form to keep up with.”

"The fact of the matter is, I knew from the moment I met him. he was the man I was going to marry, so the fact I was seeing someone else seemed irrelevant. I had already broken up with G in my head, he was history. I just hadn't got around to telling him that yet!”

J'aime beaucoup pour l'instant, hâte d'en savoir plus sur le pdv anonyme qui lui veut du mal !

Wow

Que motivação mais fraca, pensei que o livro fosse dar um bom plot twist envolvendo os personagens principais mas tô vendo que não, vai ficar só na superfície mesmo

Muito difícil não ficar morrendo de vergonha alheia com esse mundinho influencer, ainda mais dessa área, só hipocrisia

Picked this up and put it down a few times now so going to try and power through

Still enjoying it. Feels a bit mush-mashed sometimes

lol so her moms an influencer too. Wild. Her only friend from schooldays left the part after 10-15 minutes. The kid has already been preemptively “taken” or rather moved… the stalker has a daughter Grace who used to be obsessed with these influencer moms and she lost her baby in utero and she’s passed away now too.

Interesting

hoopla ebook.

Mlhr… tu só fala e não faz nada ué

started this one yesterday and was not so into it, hoping it gets better 🤨