“Through the phone, I could hear the steady click, click, click of my mother’s sewing needles as she knitted.” You don’t have to be crafty to know that you knit with knitting needles and sew with sewing needles (which do not click, click, click as you sew). I’m enjoying the book but this irks my very soul, and it isn’t the only time it’s happened in this book.

So I just read the letter to the reader in the Fairyloot edition and then looked at the page count for the other editions and it looks like the Fairyloot edition is basically a different book? It seems to be over 100 pages longer (502) than most editions and Arden’s description of the two versions indicates that it isn’t just an additional chapter but a totally different writing style. Has anyone ever come across something like this?

19 year olds don't have fun hobbies anymore

i bought this book because i thought the title and the cover pf the book was interesting and i didnt even read the back. i thought it was a cute fantasy. not this heartbreaking piece of literature.

This story is angry. It’s uncomfortable. Many times while writing, I’d cringe, thinking, What will my family think of me when they read this? What about my coworkers? That was when I knew I was doing something meaningful.

I love how she frames the story's unpleasantness! My gut is telling me that this one is going to be goooooooood.

"The Plans I Have For You" is a book about rejection. It asks painful questions like: What does it mean to be rejected [...] as a young person trying to get past the gates of an elitist, nepotistic institution?

Yeah okay why is this book making me tear up on a Monday morning, on my way to groceries 😭 I didn't expect the author's note to connect so much with my experience trying (and failing) to find my place in the scientific community, but here we are.