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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
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it was ok

if "this zoom meeting could have been an email" was a book
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Reading Progress

November 15, 2021 – Shelved as: to-read
November 15, 2021 – Shelved
January 14, 2022 – Started Reading
January 14, 2022 –
page 0
0.0% "time to go insane :)"
January 14, 2022 –
page 50
6.94% "i love them!!!!! ahh"
January 14, 2022 –
page 54
7.5% ""It was as if he had been bewitched and, knowing it, had sought not to fight against it but to surrender, to leave behind the world he thought he knew for another, and all because he wanted to attempt to be not the person he was - but the one he dreamed of being.""
January 14, 2022 –
page 63
8.75% "what are the odds of all three siblings being gay though"
January 16, 2022 –
page 88
12.22% "physical books are all fun and games until they are so big that you can barely hold them with both hands while reading"
January 16, 2022 –
page 122
16.94% ""What use is the Free States if we cannot be truly free?"

you're also not free in the West so idk what your point is. you're just trading one kind of "imprisonment" for another, in my opinion, worse one.
David would be an idiot to go with Edward, whom i also kinda stopped trusting over the last 30 pages."
January 16, 2022 –
page 124
17.22% "i feel sorry for Charles. i know he's supposed to be like the "antagonist" kinda standing between D and E but it's not his fault and he doesn't even know and he's been nothing but kind and tender with David while David is as asshole toward him"
January 16, 2022 –
page 138
19.17% ""I wish you well, David - I do. I hope this man you love loves you back, and always will, and that you have a long life together, and that you will not find yourself as I do at my age, a fool standing in your bedclothes before a beautiful young man you trusted with your heart and whom you thought decent, and good, and who has revealed himself to be neither, but instead a spoiled child."

YES!! DRAG HIM!!!"
January 16, 2022 –
page 154
21.39% "well, how are we feeling about our choices now, David"
January 16, 2022 –
page 180
25.0% "i have finished part one and i'm glad this book follows different perspectives in each part as David is an IDIOT and i HATE him :)"
January 16, 2022 –
page 184
25.56% "hanya totally played me with this one 🤡"
January 16, 2022 –
page 259
35.97% "hmm... i'm sad. predicting the next part will make me cry"
January 29, 2022 –
page 259
35.97% "i keep reading articles about this book instead of reading this book"
February 1, 2022 –
page 301
41.81% "me: I'm gonna use my day off for finally finishing this book

me, looking at this huge monstrosity of a book on my lap: ... might fuck around and watch Instagram reels for five hours instead"
February 1, 2022 –
page 360
50.0% "this is awful, lighten up a little hanya, i beg you"
February 18, 2022 –
page 410
56.94% ""... which led to a pandemic in 2022."

🤨 not another one"
February 18, 2022 –
page 430
59.72% "this book is so long and for what"
February 18, 2022 –
page 468
65.0% ""One of the benefits of living in Building Six was that the state helped arrange your marriage. People called it Building Sex."

i have so many questions"
February 18, 2022 –
page 511
70.97% ""Do you think our son hates me?"

"No, of course not."

Said son, five minutes earlier: "I didn't know we were having international war criminals over for dinner tonight.""
February 18, 2022 –
page 565
78.47% "finally, a touching and emotional scene in this book"
February 18, 2022 –
page 590
81.94% "and it only took 590 pages to reach a point where i actually care about the story"
February 18, 2022 –
page 612
85.0% "how is it still 100 more pages, will this ever end"
February 18, 2022 –
page 644
89.44% "questioning whether reading is truly worth it"
February 18, 2022 –
page 651
90.42% "we had a good run but this is unbearable, what if i dnf'ed this 60 pages before the end, huh, what then. much to think about. not for me though, i'm out. future Jonathan, have fun."
February 19, 2022 –
page 693
96.25% "hanya really packing all the emotions in the last ten pages after giving me nothing for the first 600"
February 19, 2022 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by roosmarijn (new) - added it

roosmarijn can you hear me screaming


message 2: by Vicky (new)

Vicky I saw it in my local Thalia today so maybe just ask someone working there about it. Same thing happened to me with BWWAY, they just kinda messed up the date I was supposed to get it


message 3: by jay (new) - rated it 2 stars

jay it arrived today so we're all good :)


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