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BooksandLala: don’t read this book, it’s not for everyone!
Me: I’m not everyone

Truly, if I don’t like this book by Paul Tremblay, I’ll never pick up another one of his again 🙏

“I wonder where it all comes from—this need to go to the place where the body has been laid to rest. It’s the need to reconfirm how precious someone was and how irreplaceable, and the desire to reconnect with them on a different plane.” 😭😭😭

Low glycemic foods (nuts, whole fruits & vegs, lean meat (jerky, fish, chicken, elk, etc), fiber supplements (Metamucil). Dried apricots/apples and KIND bars. Protein. Let your return to civilization also be an entry into a new lifestyle. Light day walks -> high intensity workouts. Probiotics, fish oil, whey protein powder, MCT oil.

“As surprising at this might sound, I can say with 100% honesty, exactly zero part of me ever considered getting off the trail. Call it determination, call it stubbornness, call it stupidity, I set out to do some thing, and dammit, I wasn’t getting off the trail until it was done.”

“Without the aid of music and the spiritual audiobooks I was listening to during the trail, I still would have *finished* the trail, but I truly believe I wouldn’t have enjoyed the experience nearly as much as I did. And remember, that is our goal — not merely to complete the trail, but to enjoy it.”

Slowly enjoying this more and more. I love the incorporation of the signing, and Levi and Gaby’s chemistry!

Yo this book is wiiild

Why is he teaching her how to sign each letter instead of just simple phrases lmao. It’s easier and faster to sign “thank you” vs signing each individual letter???

“‘I’ve been doing my job, but who cares, if the system keeps on creating situations where my job is necessary? Shouldn’t we focus on the big picture, instead of just catching whatever falls out the window at any given moment?’”

I cannot put this book down! 😩 the Picoult fangirls are onto something

this is so enjoyable so far! love this world and the characters. lillian lark is going to be my new obsession, i just know it

“I barely relax on my days off. I mean, how does anyone relax in late-stage evil empiricism? You work all week, then maybe get a couple of chores and enough laundry done on the weekends to survive another few days. I’m always trying to out-work the system, like if I can just get up early enough I’ll somehow find a secret stash of hours to use, instead of just stealing sleep from my body.” LMAO too real

“When everything is bent into a jolly shape, everything feels more mournful than it should.”

ngl i feel v neutral about this :/

“My mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby. Everyone in my family before me lived to have a baby—just that baby could grow up to have another baby. If I don’t have a baby, then all of those women reproduced just so that I could exist. I am the final product. I am the final baby.”

When you just finish Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, and the wife of this wholesome man’s wife’s name is also Eileen: 😀

“Dads, as a concept, have always felt as irrelevant to my daily life as astronauts. I know they’re out there, but I rarely think about them. Suddenly, though, I can almost imagine it. I can almost miss it, this thing I never had.”

Harari: "people didn't always de young back then!" *only gives examples of rich, white men who lived 70/80+*

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