Are there any upcoming books you’re particularly looking forward to? Yes, I’m going to mine the comments for recs.

I can’t wait for Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new memoir (in two days) and also for Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee because if you put “language” and “fantasy” in the description I’m sat.

So, last night I was reading and there was a line that flawed me for a hot second. Then it made me think. The line was: "N, E, S, W. Or Never Eat Soggy Waffles, as her tutor use to say." I was stunned! I live I Australia, and we learnt a similar expression, except it's weet-bix. Never Eat Soggy Weet-bix. For those of you playing at home, Weet-bix are a type of breakfast food, they're a bar of wheat and other such foods, that you serve with milk, honey, fruit, sugar or yoghurt. I'm wondering if anywhere else in the world has another version of this, because, of course they do! I just never thought about it 😂 So, please tell me where you are from and how you say it, or if this is just weird you y'all just say North East South & West.

EDIT! I just remembered, all the kids would say "never entertain sexy women" once they were "old enough" (over 10)

I like the exploration of Natalie’s relationship with motherhood both as a mother and as a daughter

listening to michelle describe her experience after falling from a tree, where she’s crying on the ground and her mother is standing over her, yelling at her, brings a lot of memories up for me. is being told to stop crying while lying on the ground a universal asian kid experience?? 😭😭😭

but genuinely the number of times my parents have told me to stop crying is innumerable (i am very prone to crying unfortunately). they always say there’s no use in crying, that it’s not going to help you solve whatever problem you have.

this idea of parents expressing their love in industrial ways puts so much into perspective. it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, but it helps make things make sense.

On one of our early dates, Caleb had said he wasn’t “book smart,” but that wasn’t the full truth, was it? The full truth was that he wasn’t anything smart.

My favorite thing about this book so far is that her husband keeps catching random strays😭😭

Her lack of social anxiety is terrifying….