Rebecca Lin > Recent Status Updates

“I realized that I would never have corrected somebody who said ‘you can feel the food.’ That was how Owen would end up with students who said ‘savor,’ while I would end up with students who said ‘papel iss blonk.’”

I’m actually crying

“Do you know, my mom thinks Ivan is the devil incarnate?” has me screaming. Really warming up to this book if you couldn’t tell

1. Nothing like a college romance aka taking a long walk around campus, staying up all night talking in the dorms, then going to eat breakfast at the dining hall together. 2. I HAAAATEEEEE IVAN

Dropping this quick update to say that this psychologist read me to FILTH. Like wdym a “noninterpersonal interpersonal relationship” um???? IM SICK

Was about to throw in the towel for tonight but there were just a couple of passages back to back that had me screaming. FREE MY GIRL FROM IVAN!!!! Dude I cannot imagine ANYTHING WORSE than an email situationship with an emotionally unavailable mathematician. I’m simultaneously sat and also ready to chuck this book across the room

The way Selin just won four pounds of cashews in a raffle has woken me up to the sheer absurdity of this book. Why tf is there so much happening 😭

Idk why but I’m obsessed when Svetlana says she says, “Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it.”

This book reads as if my internal monologue were on max volume all the time. Fast-paced, lots of funny little asides, but absolutely overwhelming to focus on everything if you don’t learn to tune some things out lol

The way I’m not even 30 pages in and Batuman has fully encapsulated the college experience is wild

Rudyard stan

Dude being a boy mom would stress me tf outttttt

Forgot how I heard about this book but I’ve had this for ages and figured it would be a quick read

Need to watch the show immediately after I’m done

I’ve been so enthralled by this book it feels like I’m doing something naughty every time I sink into my little reading nook and pick up the book again, which is ironic considering what happens in the book

Okay Moira is also a badass. And the Commander is so real tbh—I too would like to play Scrabble with someone and have someone kiss me like they meant it

Offred’s mom is a badass

the chapters are short and I am can’t stop reading

finally registered for LAM today

RUNNING IS SO AWESOME

1. Beardsley’s accident sounds absolutely terrifying. 2. Need to train more hills.

got this book from my work’s secret santa exchange! hoping it will pull me out of a marathon training slump 🤞

Started as an audiobook to listen to while crocheting!