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“I didn’t know anyone else understood the sting of love mixed with obvious disapproval until I saw Mr Philips with Tavia”. Well. I feel seen.

Omg the tropes. I can't. Manic pixie dream girl, insta love, Groundhogs Day plot. I cannot even.

WHY THE %^#$ IS THE MOM ALWAYS IN A BATHTUB?! EXPLAIN!!!!

I don't remember the first book being so dull. Also, the hell is "neck-length hair."? Is that chin or shoulder? Men should not be given the right to describe things...

Damn, that is some serious hate on A Fish Called Wanda out of nowhere! He called it "allegedly humorous" and the victim of a laughing-related death attributed to viewing it "easily amused." I like that movie...

Ahmaud Arbery's name is spelled wrong. Please fix in final edition.

Holly crap, the little orc girl nearly broke me. Her Certainties class is a work of satirical art.

"make sure he doesn't leave" followed by "pining for the fjords"? Braswell channels her inner Python.

Marisol (Mari) and Lu? I see that tribute, Tehlor. I love author call outs. It feels like an Easter egg. :)

"I find it ironic that the Bible says good created us in his image but white people had to create him in theirs."

"Blaming mass shootings on Call of Duty is like blaming our obesity problem on PacMan."

He's hitting the nail on the head every damn page. Again. The stuff about reconstruction and the compromise of 1876 is brilliantly written. So succinct. Wish I was still teaching...

The interaction with the librarians hit me to the core! The fact that his favorite one leaves and the rest constantly side-eye him until he finally stops visiting. Right in the feels! I'm so glad I get to be "that" librarian for so many teens. Keep em coming back!!!

The plane in the title header faces who’s speaking! I’m helping you all!! There are two! Different! Girls!

Just realized there are two girls telling this story. God, I was so confused up to this point.

I get this narrator so much. As someone with OCD, who has recently been to Mt Rainier, I can fully attest that it is a magical place that clears your mind and gives you a rare peaceful moment. Also, there are totally bigfoots (bigfeet), but they keep to themselves mostly.

Y'all, this place was real. Is real, but isn't quite so eugenicist as before. Holy crap.

Ah yes, a Randy Newman joke. That will sit well with the youth. Known for their love of Randy.

...This was not an absence from his life and it was nothing he regretted for a single breezy, smiling moment. His life was not better or worse for who he was, his life was the only version of himself he could be." Ace-aro character FTW! That's, I think, three now?

"André had no interest in women, which led to worried murmurs until it became clear that André did not have any interest in men either. André found people exciting, and wonderful to be friends with, and he had no interest in romance with anyone...."

"They are only people—good people—who are now too busy and tired and distracted, trying to survive in these difficult times. But this is how evil grows, no? When good people are too tired." Wow, that's super applicable. May I never grow too tired.

This kind of long sweeping history is my bread and butter. I'm in love with this paragraph about guano and WWII.

My God, her opening portion about the meaning of genocide is a hard-hitting and gorgeously written piece of prose.

Trying to get past the overwhelming douchiness of calling a Moleskine notebook by its brand name. Just say "notebook." Also, it's a jacket. You don't have to call it a "North Face." It's just pretentious.

There's Jean Kilbourne. I knew she'd be quoted eventually.

I don't know what I like better, the Next to Normal reference or the girl named Wickham that ran off to Gretna Green. Clever Ms. Lee. :)

Dear God, the flowery language is killing me. Just get to the freaking point! I've skipped probably three half-chapters bc I'm like "yep, got it, moving on".

As usual, her world building is perfection. That being said, I'm so mad at the impulsivity of the main character I could scream.

So...she has capgras syndrome. Moving on. I hope this isn't an "asylum torture" book, bc the podcast "The Control Group" surely did it better.

OMG I want to beat Elias. Why didn't you move the ghosts on before!? Literally no explanation given for why he just let them build up like a shaken pop bottle...