#the ones we're meant to find

[bookishintherain]

⭐️Book Review: The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He⭐️

TL; DR:

I definitely recommend this book. Give it a chance if you enjoy Black Mirror esque sci-fi tales that draw you in and make you think.

Full Thoughts:

To start, I don’t think the dust jacket cover does this book justice. It just doesn’t sell the book, and is a huge reason why I’ve put off reading this. I’ve seen a lot of people say they love the cover, and while it’s pretty, it just does NOT fit the book in my opinion.

So this sat on my shelf, collecting dust, until I finally read the blurb inside and found myself interested. This was a sci-fi book? And not some book club fiction book? Colour me intrigued.

And then I started reading and was instantly hooked. You get the two perspectives of Cee and Kasey as they both are working towards the same goal in completely different ways and from their own unique angles. The sci-fi future the author designed is interesting and unique and yet all too affected by human nature.

Cee is a positive, kind, talkative character and her island survival endeavors have you rooting for her success as she tries to find a way to find Kasey.

Kasey, while not personable like Cee, is quiet and thoughtful and her mind is a machine that seems to be able to solve any problem. She’s pragmatic and while I can’t say I liked her, I was more than intrigued at where her plans and investigations would lead.

And the ending left me so conflicted in the best way, and I think it was a perfect end.

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[thegirlwiththelantern]

Insta: @ littlepiscesdreaming

#The Ones We're Meant to Find #Joan He #book #books #booklr #bookstagram #asianlit

[opulentquotes]

Logic ended where love began.

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He

#Joan He #The Ones We're Meant to Find #quote #lit #literature

[aroaessidhe]

ocean bookmarks 🐚🌊

#bookmarks #the ones we're meant to find #the mermaid the witch and the sea #sailing by orion's star

[inlovewithquotes]

Because it was possible to love someone without fully understanding them. Possible to love parts of them and not their whole.

-The Ones We're Meant To Find

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #love quotes #relationship quotes #joan he #the ones we're meant to find

[bartonsedai]

A beating heart trumps a soft one.

The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He

#books #book quote #the ones we're meant to find #joan he

[recoveringishard]

I put out our pictures in my room today for the first time since we’ve been separated the spark in my heart made me realize that not giving up might save us someday. I miss and long for your face, your touch and your smile. I just hope you can wait because I’d wait forever but settling for anyone besides you would hurt me more than being with someone else to ease this time apart.

#love #i love you #you are my love #the ones we're meant to find

[mindibindi]

"𝙳𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚆𝚑𝚘" || 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚡 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 [pt. 1] [𝚙𝚝. 𝟸]

#dw #dr who #doctor who #ten x donna #the doctor x donna #the doctordonna #donna noble #the tenth doctor #the 10th doctor #tennant x tate #catherine tate #david tennant #tatennant #textposts #otp: partners in crime #otp: i think you'll find we're quite something #yeah it was meant to be one per ep but there's two doctors in journey's end and not a lot to work with in the end of time... #dw textpost meme

[ghost-in-the-corner]

I'm trying to analyze my own feelings about the new Spiderverse. Despite the fact that it left myself and the others I saw it with completely unsatisfied, it was an absolute masterclass in the art of creating a complex and empathetic story. It was meant to leave the viewers unsatisfied.

Throughout the first and the second Spiderverse, the audience's perspective is largely tied to Miles, with a bit of Gwen's in the second. Rather than the audience get a story we like while leaving it open for the third installment, we got put through the same experience as Miles.

He can't figure out his spider powers? His are so different that we can't understand them. He finds the confidence to take down Kingpin? We fly with him. He gets isolated from the rest of the spiderverse? So do we. He's trapped with an evil version of himself? That's where the film ends for us.

Our feelings from the movie are supposed to pair with what he's feeling. We are living the same experience as Miles. And it's in service of the larger theme, the thread connecting the trilogy together.

Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask.

The third Spiderverse is going to be a fucking phenomenal film. Better than both of the first two.

#this is why atsv can't be a self contained film like itsv #because if we're meant to empathize with his experience #we can't just have it in one sitting #now this movie wasn't perfect #i honestly give it like an 8/10 personally #but with this idea in mind i'm finding my experience much better than when i first left amc #marvel #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spiderverse spoilers #across the spiderverse spoilers #spiderman #miles morales #film #corner conversations

[angelsdean]

ppl who watched s1 while it was airing with the framework of sam being the main character...........i would like 2 study you bc i do not understand 

#but at the same time. the beauty of what makes dean soo interesting IS that he wasn't the main character at first #he was just the fun sidekick w/ a heart of gold and more going on beneath the surface #which makes u. intrigued by him #makes u want him more #every ep i'm like. ok but tell me abt dean #and the crazy thing is. so many early eps are focused on revealing things abt dean by paralleling him to ppl in the cases #like sam's stuff is just. handed to us bc he's the main character. he's coping w/ jess's death he's having dreams he wants to find john #but dean is like. we gotta dig. we gotta go meta to understand him. and that's just. soo fun and delicious 2 me #he is our subtext boy. he has always been our subtext boy. everything abt him is subtext and it's still 100% real #bc since day one that's how we're meant to read him #anyways. re-falling in love w/ dean don't mind me<3 #vic.txt #vics spn rewatch

[thegirlwiththelantern]

[A collage of three images of the sea. The background dark with bubbles and the edge of something by the first circle which is a thick rush of bubbles like a curtain or waterfall. Then in a blue frame the frontmost circle shows the sea from above, white tipped waves and a bird in flight. Centred is a quote which reads - Even in a sea, every life rippled far beyond its end]

#The Ones We're Meant to Find #litedit #yalitedit #asianlit #myedits #Joan He #@hisarahlee #@jeremybishop #@thanospal

[moonsidesong]

in case you missed it, sega's been posting strange ads for Puyo Quest on their official twitter. the ads still link to the Japanese app store though, and the latter two posts also further clarify it's still Japan-only. the first one is the app's usual icon, but the others seem to be lower-polygon and differently textured versions of Puyo Chronicle models.

what's going on, i wonder?

#puyo puyo #bri talks #highly highly doubt we're getting localized quest #and if we do let's face it it would last like one year and shut down #but i wonder what these models are for? very interesting #hope we get a ringo soon to complete the set #i couldn't find the carbuncle post myself so that's someone else's screenshot sorry the sizing is inconsistent there LOL #the rest are my own screenshots #these are ads meant to show up as promoted tweets so you won't find them scrolling on sega's account #it's easy to find quote tweets from almost any puyo fan account though lol

[familyofpaladins]

I did the meme thing with my most recent blorbos to form the most ridiculous set lol (Leonardo from TMNT and Jess Harper from Laramie (1959))

It's very funny to me because both of them have killed/willing to kill, but it's the 15 year old turtle who would probably be the one to admit first that they're gonna have to kill someone instead of the 26 year old ex-gunfighter

Bonus of the kinds of fics I've been reading lately

pissed off their red-coded brother/friend who wants them to stop their self-sacrificial bullshit

#what makes it even funnier (to me) is that raph and jess are more similar in attitude . and most likely to start brawls and fights #with leo and slim being the stern 'follow the rules' level headed 'calm' ones #but yeah leo and jess are the ones who would throw away their life or happiness if it meant the people they care about stayed safe #so they are my favs and get to be memed :) #larmaie obsession revived after finding out that my fav author on ffn was still writing i just hHADN'T BEEN GETTING ANY EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS #THANKS FOR THAT FF.NET >:( #anyway #to those who regularly follow me. if i've vagued about a character in the last month. i've probably been referring to jess #memes #meme redraw #what are we calling this meme? #steven universe meme #we're going to have to kill this guy meme #tmnt #tmnt 2003 #03 leo #03 leonardo #03 raph #laramie #laramie (1959) #jess harper #slim sherman #famofpaladins draws #(i tagged 2003 tmnt. but really it's any tmnt honestly)

[coquelicoq]

one important thing about work emails is that whoever you send them to can forward them to anyone else, or reply to you and copy other people. so if you're going to talk about a third party in your email, only say things you would be okay with the third party reading. because people can and will just suddenly CC brand new people on a long email chain, who will then be able to backread anything you've ever said in any of your previous responses that you were sending to only one person. word to the wise.

#i mention this because this just happened to me today BUT it was fine because i already do this #i was writing to client A and mentioned client B who has been making both of our lives harder #but because it's my policy never to trash talk one client to another client (they all know each other btw) #(and some of them are contractors for others of them) #the thing that i said about client B was not something i had to then regret a few days later #when client A for some fucking reason CC'd client B in her response to me #i worded it like 'i'm sorry this has been so hectic and last-minute. it took me a while to understand what client B wanted.' #which has the virtue of being true and also not denigrating client B in any way even though what i meant was #'client B has been so confusing in everything he has said to me that i couldn't give you any advance warning' #but i didn't SAY that. so we're golden #the thing is you will be SO tempted SO often to tell someone that something is a third party's fault #because it will often be a third party's fault!!!!! but you must resist every time. especially in writing #<-this is not universal advice bc sometimes you need to stand up for yourself or whatever. i just mean in venting situations #no venting to clients about other clients. sometimes you need to vent with them in order to build rapport and get them to see you as #an ally rather than an obstacle but you cannot vent ABOUT other people. they can do it but you can't. you have to find other things #to vent about #my posts

[inlovewithquotes]

Logic ended where love began.

-The Ones We're Meant To Find

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #love quotes #joan he #the ones we're meant to find

[melit0n]

Sat with my dad and watching him explain some of the most horrific, grisly, life-threatening injuries a cyclist had gotten with the calmest look on his face

#'Oh hey! Where's ___? Isn't he meant to be in this one?' #proceeds to give me the most indetail description of every injury the guy got like he was there #is this a cyclist dad thing?? Along with him somehow remembering every cyclists name but not my friend's?? #'Yep...a punctured lung...three broken ribs…lost one of his eyes...brain damage. The usual.' #and I'm just sat there like 😟 #get's worse when he can't find a word in English and we're trying to figure out what it is so we're mumbling to eachother in French -> #about how he's either broken his leg or punctured his pancreas or something #they're always going through one of Hercules' ten labours I swear #doing anything BUT cycling #mel's thoughts