Oh no.... An arranged marriage.

Y'all are gonna have to find a way to get me to empathize with girls besides "oh no her evil dad wants to marry her off to some (probably) grown man she's textually never seen before".

It feels akin to "But they didn't let me sit at the front of the intergalactic space bus, because I was Black." Like. Please. It feels like these are very tropes that are rooted in real history of what actually happened and still happens to girls. But. Could we get an allegory? Metaphor situation going on?

Maybe dad wants her to become a water bender and is sending her to water bending school in the ass end of the country even though she loves air bending instead? (There's no bending in this story that I know of, it's just an example) Talk about how "we need water benders and you'll serve our people and this family by learning water bending, not to fight hahaha don't be silly. People like you don't fight in wars. You'll spend 10 years getting your water bending PhD and you will teach the kindergarten littles for the rest of your life"

Because like. Being gendered is there. The restrictions of what you can do is there. The lack of agency is there. It's something someone seeking out asian reading will understand...😵‍💫

Every now and again I notice people giving zero stars. Sometimes this makes sense, and the person will explain they DNFed so didn't want to rate or genuinely thought it was so terrible. Or they might say "I didn't know how to rate this, so I didnt"

However, more often than not, people write long, thoughtful reviews that imply they liked the book enough to give it a rating but the stars are blank.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a glitch or an intentional choice? If so, what's the secret meaning behind leaving a long written review but not doing a star rating?

”His balding head was ringed by rust-colored patches of hair on the sides and in the back of his skull. His white T-shirt sported a week's worth of stains. They spelled out his eating habits like indistinct hieroglyphics.”

Must we be overly and unnecessarily descriptive in literally every moment. Using “ringed” already implies it goes around his head. We get it, this shirt is gross. I feel like I’m going insane.