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This book reminds me of the movie "Accepted" where someone makes up a whole university to fake that he got accepted to college somewhere

This book’s discussion of a high pressure high school just YEETS me back a few years and wowza I forgot how stifling that environment could be

Lol sounds like my high school but in California

So…Asian American Veronica Mars? I can dig that

I find this quote interesting
“Home existing within the boundary of her mother. When Rose is away from her, she feels rootless and free. But she also feels unbalanced, as if she can never find her true center.”

Ooh I sense our friend Grant is a bit of a white savior

I wonder if they’ll name what the Blooms are explicitly

Wow this is a quick read. The transcript fly by

I love how this book mixes things up and uses testimonies to introduce characters and the situation

If I had a nickel for every book with a sister (or sisters) that kills her lovers, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

(The books: My Sister the Serial Killer and How I'd Kill You)

“This is why teenagers shouldn’t have to eulogize our friends. We’re supposed to have more time to get this right”
OOOOOF this quote hits hard

Wholly unrelated to the book. But so far I’ve found a bookmark and a raffle ticket inside my copy. I wonder what else I’ll find

(My best random book mark find was a paper heart that said “you’re beautiful” or something along those lines on it. I kept it)

It’s super interesting to be reading this while I play Persona 5 Strikers a game about trauma and injustice

Not to take away from the severity of murder but this bothers me. Do people actually say bae? Especially in a serious tone

I can tell the book’s about to dive into timey-wimey things and I can’t say I’m prepared

Now the suspicious stuff begins

So…NaNoWriMo. Got it

Getting cult vibes, anyone else?

Is the inspiration for this book “what if NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) went horribly wrong?”

I get to read a bitchy me gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss this book’s protagonist. I have…emotions

This book shows the complexity of life, especially with a woman who harbors many secrets

I need to draw a family tree to keep track of all these people

I’ve been reading all of the obituaries confused to all heck because I didn’t realize this book is set in 2044 and not the 2020s

It’s interesting that Jess’s family is white because the statement “he [Jess’s father] was supposed to be something” means something different because they’re an impoverished white family rather than an impoverished POC family. Just very interesting

This place seems modeled after Duke (name and location), and out of curiosity I checked, and Duke is #10 on the US News top colleges list. Rice and Washington University St Louis are tied for 16 (the place Duquette occupies)

I just noticed the page count is almost 366! It’s 361

Re-reading this book I’m actually liking it better than I did last time

This book feels like it keeps going on and on but in a good way. It’d make a great HBO show

I love how this book captures the loss of time when you get obsessed with something

This book keeps effortlessly sliding back and forth between present and past, and if I wasn’t paying attention I’d be hella lost by now