And i know this is a story i will carry with my forever, but i also know sam is a character i will think about forever for so many reasons. Sam really meant a lot to me, and some of his inner monologues and lines really impacted me straight to the heart. and the way the narration switches during this part of the story… it’s harrowing, heartbreaking, and so very painful, but also so masterfully done. There is a chapter of this book that i was weeping so hard during, i couldn’t breathe. “Perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.”įound family and forever friendships love, but also escapism and healing… and how sometimes all of that can come together and be lifesaving (sometimes over and over and over again, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…) ✨ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Trigger warnings + content warnings: loss of a loved one, murder, death, grief, disease/plague mentions, colonization, war, invasion, battle, talk of slavery, abuse, physical abuse from guardian, racism, xenophobia, colorism, use of slurs, blood, talk of suicide, talk of child labor, talk of inhumane work conditions, police brutality, torture, gun violence, brief sexual assault (unwanted touching with intent on more) mention of feet binding, misogyny, talk of drugs, stress + anxiety depictions, vomiting, talk of extreme stress put on students but right now i am just feeling in awe of rf kuang and everything they are doing in literature, showing all the different words people use for violence.īest footnotes.

it made me feel pride, it made me feel shame, it made me hopeful, it made me grieve, it truly kind of made me feel everything.

So many people are going to have so many individual heart shattering reactions to their identity because of this book. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. Power did not work against it’s own interests.

✨ Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. and we will see what the rest of this year and reviewing has in store for me. i am still trying to not put too much pressure on myself when it comes to writing reviews like i used to, but it was still important to me to post these the way they are currently. Hi friends! today i am going to post some… not reviews, not even really mini reviews, but some very brief thoughts on some of my favorite books with the trigger and content warnings that i found while reading.

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