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so our protag fell in love and got laid in the span of 2 pages despite the whole “we’ve never discussed our feelings, we’re star crossed lovers AND our culture actively discouraged these kinds of relationships”

so apparently these people have no modern technology but vaccines — and yet the protag knows the word chlorophyll, but also what it is and what it smells like.

“The winter that came in like a lion had gone out with a lamb” a linguistic analysis comes out with YOU NO WRITE GOOD

god i would read her grocery lists

ok so let me get this straight. this is an uber-patriarchal society which doesn't have electricity or any 'modern technology' but THEY HAVE VACCINATIONS? AGAINST SMALLPOX? what the actual FUC K is this author thinking

“The leitmotif of women’s stories and our lives is waiting.”

imagine if women, en masse, removed scott morrison from parliament,,, what a dream,,,,

i have a few ~goals~ for 2020
1. i'd really like to read more feminist texts, esp. intersectional (i.e. focusing on intersectional problems)
2. more academic texts, like foucault/lacan etc.
3. be quicker to dnf books if i'm not into them, stop wasting time reading books i don't care about!

this shit slaps but in a bad way. like hitting yourself in the face with a wii remote by accident

it would be cool if i could read more than 10 pages at a time

gretchen said no rights for prescriptivists

how bout i uh, stop starting new books

man i love studying linguistics

man i love studying linguistics

does this author realise you don’t have to use the word ‘epidermis’ and instead use skin, thereby not looking like a wanker

“the mystery sock man” is now a character. i can’t make this shit up

a pet passport? for a dog? um i sniff BULLSHIT

“unpaid-off student loads” EXCUSE ME

update we got a physical copy for christmas so i cannot wait to reread this physically in 2020

wow this just really isn’t good

I ~just~ want to keep reading this but I’m working Boxing Day and momma needs sleep if she’s gonna survive that

~best of 2019~
1. my year of rest & relaxation
2. educated
3. saga series
4. the pisces
5. the fact of a body
6. how we talk
7. becoming
8. good & mad
9. seven husbands of evelyn hugo

let’s recycle jeff bezos

the last two chapters have been *chefs kiss*

“some people may be broken-hearted not because they’ve been hurt but because they’ve never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them”

my boyfriend got me this for christmas/hanukkah & i was like, cute, but i just found out it was bc the first time i really laughed at something he said was about the call me by your name film and im,,, cryin in the club lads

we getting there lads. i will destroy my library book pile... eventually

have i mentioned it’s been 44 FUCKING DEGREES TODAY