Small, waifish bodies being a symbol of beauty and value is confusingly opposite of our evolutionary biology. Especially centuries ago when so many children died young. "The beauty of women is greatly owing to their delicacy or weakness." As animals we want to propagate the species by reproducing, and none of the "beautiful, consumptive" qualities being described are indicators of a being able to conceive and bear a child. How did it become so romanticized? And the idea of weakness equaling beauty is some deep rooted misogyny if I ever heard it. Damn, there's a lot to unpack in this chapter.

My mind is actually having a hard time wrapping around the fact that people just went about their lives and then BAM one day they find out that GERMS EXIST AND THEY'RE LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. How many people said 'yeah right, fake news'? Because if something similar were revealed to us today people would absolutely lose their shit and fight over the authenticity of the evidence. And I'm sure it will happen again one day with some quantum physics entanglement theory multiverse sort of thing and current times will seem like the dark ages! Okay I'm spiraling a little thinking about this, probably time to take a break.

Where do you guys listen to your audiobooks or purchase them?

Library Indie Bookstore through Libro FM Audible Spotify

Curious to hear. I'm looking for options!

I looked to see if this has been discussed and didn't see anything. How are people tagging TBR books vs Interested books? Obviously you can do it however right but I'm curious what the difference for people is. My TBR is literally thousands soooo I am thinking I will make Interested be like my more immediate reads wants.

So far loving this, as expected 🫶🏼 Also love the use of humour, one second I'd be like that was funny and the very next second he'd give you the most gut wrenching sentence! And honestly I love that!!

“He runs after her, but of course he doesn’t stand a chance, he’s a grown man and they don’t have a clue about how to run. Grown men don’t have enough things they’re afraid of on this planet to become good at running.”

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨