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nanstgeorge · 7 months

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Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.

THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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queenbee2o3 · 11 months

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just finished the seven husbands of evelyn hugo and it destroyed me. it made me so unbelievably happy. it tore my heart out. it gave me a gentle hug. i am filled with a pleasant hopelessness and bittersweet hope. and peace.

#and love for my friend who lent me her copy.#and also i feel so touched as a bisexual woman? like i know that isn’t hardest represention to get but it made me so happy #it’s treated with so much respect #if i ever write anything that makes someone feel the way i do right now i will be beyond elated.#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo spoilers #evelyn hugo spoilers #evelyn hugo #harry cameron #celia st james #monique grant

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jakejeffreyperalta · 9 months

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anyone volunteering to be my (gay person's) best friend (has to be gay) who dies in a drunk driving accident killing the guy he was slowly falling in love with [the guy happens to be the father of the girl who is writing my biography (i tracked her down so i could give her a letter her father wrote for my dead best friend about how important she was to him)]

#teared up when harry died and then she was like 'james grant' and i just sat there like a fucking idiot #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #tshoeh #harry cameron #evelyn hugo #monique grant #tshoeh spoilers #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo spoilers

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just2bubbly · 4 months

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It's 3am and I'm reading 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' and this book is incredible. Too bad I had kept in unread for such a long time. Can't keep this one down before I complete it but have to since it's New Year's and classes start tomorrow at 7. Also EH is the type of woman that make you feel intimidated and you like that about them. She is cool, has an air of mystery that has got me as a reader, also her not regretting the things she did but feel sorry about it, is the right energy to end the year on. She did things that got her where she is and there is lil to be ashamed of it. I have not read it entirely so won't make an opinion entirely based on the 100 pages I have read. Ernie Diaz was a good mean to freedom, don't feel sorry about it. Don Adler however is putting me on edge, like yes. An abusive husband that knows you how to love you and make you happy and still choosing to do it at his own will. Evelyn feeling like she needs to endure his abuse for the tabloids, her reputation and society is the saddest thing. Also I have started to like Henry Cameron, gives a friendly vibe. Hope I don't jinx it. Celia is a friend, or maybe not. Maybe too early in the book to make an opinion also Ruby being a backstabber saw that coming sooner. Loving the interactions between Grant and Hugo. Also I don't know why Evelyn choose Monique, it's not making sense. Unless James Grant had one up over Evelyn and she is repaying it back. That seems unrealistic but won't discard the idea entirely. Also Monique's own failed marriage as an consuming thought becoming an after thought is building up to the plot in some way or another, I'm sure.

Can't wait to read further into this book.

#seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn hugo #monique grant #taylor jenkins reid #book rant #bookblr

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tothemaxi · 3 months

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all the quotes i wrote down from "the seven husbands of evelyn hugo"

“she's beautiful, and she's rich, and she's powerful, and sexual and charming. and i'm a normal human being. somehow i must convince myself that she and i are on equal footing, or this is never going to work.”

“everyone's dying, sweetheart. you're dying, im dying, that guy is dying.”

“i don't regret many of the lies i told or the people i hurt. i'm ok with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly. and also, i have compassion for myself. i trust myself.”

“make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”

“do yourself a favor and learn how to grab life by the balls, dear.”

“oh, i know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn't know her power, but im sick of all that.”

“the world doesn't give things, you take things.”

“i love you too much to let you live only for me.”

“because i don't want to be meant for someone like you.”

“‘you love me?’

‘oh, my god, what an understatement,’”

“if there are all different types of soul mates, then you are one of mine.”

“she's such a spectacular woman—by which i mean she, herself, is a spectacle. but she's also deeply, deeply human.”

“i was neither angry nor flattered. i simply didn't care. it cost so much, caring. i didn't have any currency to spend on it. instead, i walked away.”

“i kissed her forehead like she was my baby again because she was forever my baby.”

“i broke like i have never broken before. the devastating luxury of panic overtook me. and it has never left.”

“nobody deserves anything, it's simply a matter of who's willing to go and take it for themselves.”

“my hate is not uncomplicated.”

“she is painfully human to me now.”

“a star is always and forever a star.”

“and it occurs to me that it is the very thing that made her that will be the thing to finally take her down.”

“we just really liked each other.”

“knowing there are all different types of great loves out there, is enough for me now.”

“he was my best friend.”

“even though it is too early yet, i will, one day, forgive her.”

“you do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, 'it’s ok, you can fall down now. i'll catch you'."

"I'm under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you."

#tothemaxi #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn herrara #evelyn hugo #celia st james #evelyn and celia #harry cameron #connor cameron #james grant #monique grant #tshoeh

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jam-campasta · 1 year

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trying to read more books this year so im giving booktok's babygirl a shot

#evelyn hugo #monique grant #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #myart #im gonna be real with yall. i dont like it so far #it is getting better but the beginning is so rushed and i feel like i barely know monique cause she reacts so normally to things #but maybe thats the point and shes not the focus at all and the authors just trying to get her outta the way asap jhdfvnkfdv #IDK i only just got to chapter 6 #i only have one drawing class this semester so hopefully ill be able to draw fun stuff again instead of just assignments ;w;

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existentialdreadsblog · 1 year

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

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poppletonink · 4 months

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Review: The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"I'm under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you."

If Taylor Swift's Slut! was a book it would be The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - the life story of a reclusive Hollywood actress, the stories of forbidden love, pain, and heartache that made her hide away from the world.

The words heartwrenching, addictive, and shocking do not even begin to describe the experience of reading this masterpiece woven and written into existence by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The talent she holds is immense and incomprehensible. She can make the reader weep over a fictional actress - a woman who should be loathed for her lack of remorse and the terrible atrocities she committed; who is also merely a woman craving the love she struggled to garner her whole life.

Evelyn's story is of the brutal nature of female ambition and the way in which we are treated for it. Just like fictional women before her, be it Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy or It's a story of a woman painted as a slut for doing what she had to in order to survive as an actress in the cold-hearted, but glamorous grasp of Old Hollywood.

It is also a story of identity and assumption - how we as a society are too quick to create labels to brandish someone and put them into a box. The representation in this novel is wonderful, and the message told through this diversity is one that should reach out to the corners of the earth in order to be heard by all. Evelyn Hugo is a bisexual, Cuban American woman and she is powerful within her identity. She also perfectly sums up the point of this book in her own words: "I'm bisexual. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box."

Reading this book is an experience that will leave people feeling heartbroken, as though their very core has been ripped to pieces. Simultaneously, it will leave them feeling invigorated, with a fresh wave of empowerment flowing through them. The lessons that are entwined into the pages of this novel are profound and important - they are lessons of love, feminism, and power. This is a book that people should not go without and one that should be declared mandatory reading worldwide.

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joval11 · 8 months

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"The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" is the novel with the best plot twist I've ever read.

#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn hugo #celia st james #harry cameron #monique grant

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imafuckinggrimreaper · 6 months

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And when she said:

“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

#taylor jenkins reid #evelyn hugo #harry cameron #celia st james #monique grant #fiction #dark academia #aesthetic #respect her #oh my heart #someheartbrokenpoemsaboutlove #books #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #love #love quotes #quotes #adult fiction #lgbtq #wlw

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bluecinephile · 2 years

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i have never felt more pain in my life

#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn hugo #celia st james #taylor jenkins reid #monique grant

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sofikiii · 2 months

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Evelyn Hugo and my version of Monique Grant!

Evelyn needed to be a Bond girl, please Taylor Jenkins Reid it would’ve made perfect sense (and it would connect two of my fav interests <3). I’ve noticed there wasn’t a lot of Monique Grant (I haven’t seen any, actually! If you see any please send it my way!!) so I had to make my own take on her!!!

Plus the Evelyn sketch!!

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alightonahill · 2 months

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I was re-reading TJR's books, before venturing into the last one "Carrie Soto Is back", and everytime it just strikes me how similiar these quotes from "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and "Daisy Jones and The Six" actually are. Like you cannot tell me in all honesty that Monique and her parents weren't the inspiration behind Julia, Billy and Camila.

"I love you. I love you in a way I never thought possibile (...) But the fact remains that, though I have never loved my wife the way I love you, I will never leave her. My daughter (...) is my reason for living. And I know she's happiest with me and her mom. I know she will live her best life if I stay where I am. Angela is perhaps not the love of my life. I know now that I've felt real passion. But (...) she is my best friend, my confidante, my companion. (...) I love her the way one loves a partner. I could never forgive myself for causing her pain. And I would find myself desperate to call her, to hear from her, to know how she is every moment of every day if I was not with her. My family Is my Heart. And I cannot break us up." (James - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)

"But I'd give it all back for just a few more days with him. For just one more late-night talk." (Angela - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)

"How could I be around Daisy Jones and not be mesmerized by her? Not fall in love with her? I couldn't. I just couldn't. But Camila meant more. That's just the very deepest Truth. My family meant more to me. (...) Maybe Camila wasn't the person I was the most in love with at the time. (...) She was always the person I would choose. Passion is... it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time." (Billy - Daisy Jones and The Six)

"Daisy, he loves you. You know that he loves you. I know that he loves you. But he's not going to leave me." (Camila - Daisy Jones and The Six)

"Give me all the Platinum Albums you want, all the drugs and all the Cuervo and all the fun times and the success and the fame and all of it, I would hand them all back to you, just at the cost of my memories with her." (Billy - Daisy Jones and The Six)

"Your life isn't about me, honey. My Life is about you" (Billy to Julia - Daisy Jones and The Six)

#daisy jones and the six #the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo #daisy and billy #billy and camila #Julia Dunne #Billy Dunne #Camila Dunne #Daisy Jones #Monique Grant #James Grant #Angela Grant #quotes #parallels #taylor jenkins reid #djats #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo

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thatbooknerdandherknife · 11 months

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#evelyn hugo #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #book recommendations #booklr #quotes #monique grant #taylor jenkins reid #strong #strong women #gorgeous women

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ink-on-dead-trees-simp · 2 years

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It's just occurred to me that we literally never pay any attention to Monique in tshoeh. Like how did we just forget her?

#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn hugo #celia st james #evelyn x celia #seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyncelia #monique grant

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jordiethepoolfloatie · 2 years

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I have just finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. (literally 2 minutes ago)

It’s a book that had been lent to me, so, devastatingly enough, I couldn’t annotate the countless great lines I would have wanted to. So instead, I ended up taking pictures of some of them, or, when I didn’t, I tried to *breathe in* every single word of them.

Very obviously, this includes some MAJOR SPOILERS so proceed at your own risk

#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyncelia #evelyn hugo #celia st james #harry cameron #monique grant #lgbtq+#booklr

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