#my mechanical romance

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

Some books by Asian authors to read this may!

Edit: thank you @linkedsoul for letting me know that I misused the term AAPI in the original post. I’m very sorry about that, and have changed the title to accurately reflect what this list is.

[olivieblake]

hi i just finished my mechanical romance (the audiobook which is BRILLIANT) and then i found you on tumblr and i wanted to say your book is glorious and hit me in such a deeply personal way.

im also biracial and a mechanical engineer. like teo, i was insanely competitive in high school and had a close relationship with a physics teacher who's definitely a bit sexist but trying his best. like bel, i wasn't sure i fit in engineering and i love building things and got rejected from MIT. like neelam, i was a mean and moody teen and constantly fighting to get robotics guys to take me seriously. this book threw me back into every horrible group project i had in college, especially the tiny pool filter baby i made for senior design with a team of guys and one woman who didn't like me. every deep conversation in a car, i felt like i was there, having it with myself or my sister or my best friend.

i don't often see myself so directly reflected in books. i wish i had something like this in high school. im so glad to have it now, and even happier for all the kids in high school that get to read it now.

also you're really funny and teo and bel are adorable

omg!!!! I love this. not just you saying I'm funny (although thank you very much). I am so honored to have written something that spoke to you in this way. I'm so touched that it felt that real and right to you. I'm so glad in general that you enjoyed the book and thank you so much for sharing this, because I know there's a lot of the old me in there too and I'm happy we could share it asynchronously together in the ether like this

[noveltyreads]

My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

ARC kindly provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I really should've known better than to judge a book by its cover, but I really couldn't help that this book looked so cute. 

This book is a romance book, yes. But at its core it's more so about STEM and empowering women to go into science, tech, engineering and mathematics based fields. Bel doesn't think she has what it takes to do engineering. She enjoys it but she can't imagine doing it as a job or what she could do in the future. This book was quite empowering, showing that girls do belong in STEM. I loved the steminist message. 

But while I loved the women's empowerment in this book, a few things fell a bit flat for me. For starters, it took me a while to get into this book. I mainly blame writing style for this and I felt like I got used to the writing style too late to really absorb the story. Not to mention, the physics and engineering jargon. Because Bel and Teo talked (and flirted) in engineering and robotics terms, I struggled to understand a lot of things due to my complete and utter lack of understanding of anything physics related. 

I think it was mainly due to the physics banter that it took me a while to get into the relationship of this book which was a shame because this book got me cheesy grinning at the end. There were times when I was questioning if I was shipping them or not because there were things Bel and Teo were doing that I sort of raised an eyebrow about. I'm glad they communicated and helped fix things together. 

All in all, a cute book but the writing style got the better of me at times.

[annelisreadingroom]

Have you read many books in February? I haven't counted but My Mechanical Romance is one of the books I read this year. It's a story about two high school students who meet when they both become members of the robotics club at school.

[bidoofenergy]

my mechanical romance is fucking incredible already and im not just saying that because im a mechanical engineer but also because alexene farol follmuth is hilarious and incredible

[bugonmywindow]

- My Mechanical Romance

[alvodra]

Apparently there's a book called My Mechanical Romance that has nothing to do with My Chemical Romance? Then why is it called that? I'm so confused

[ismahanescorner]

My Mechanical Romance | Book Review

Author: Alexene Farol Follmuth

Genre: YA Contemporary

Publisher: Macmillan 

Release Date: 23/06/2022

Rating: 3.75/5 🌟🌟🌟💫

Synopsis:

Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn't seem to like her either. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Because girls do belong in STEM.

Review:

TW//: misogyny

I quite enjoyed this novel, but in all honesty it isn’t anything to wax on about! It is your typical run of the mill contemporary YA coming of age story with a romantic side plot!

I like the fact that the story for the most part focuses primarily on engineering and robotics than the romance. I also liked the honest depiction of female friendship dynamics, and that it wasn’t fodder for the “not like the other girls” trope! The “slow-burn” camaraderie between Bel and Neelam was so heartwarming to witness!!

Overall, it’s a very short, sweet, and wholesome story about a girl navigating her way through stem (and love)!

nb: I listened to the audiobook and the narrators did a phenomenal work. definitely recommend checking out the audiobook if that’s your preferred reading choice/if your library has it!

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[canciqer]

next up is revenge era

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

Ms Voss is such an angel, and I really hope bel does end up thinking abt engineering seriously! Also rlly hoping that teo expedites his whole actually-listening-to-bel thing lol 😅

[fxnharellll]

it’s acc crazy how excited me and others were to romance Lucanis and every romance dialogue i chose w him was just brushed off???😭 why do u not want my rook lmao. why is he so ready to flirt with neve whilst my rook is standing there like: 🧍🏽‍♀️like is this a third wheeling simulator. no one wants to pay $70 for a game that talks up its romance elements only to find the companions more interested in each other/minimal reactivity lmao.

I’m happily shacked up w emmrich finally 🤞🏽but oh my god, other than the almost kiss and that really sweet line of his at the end of the game, there’s NOTHING THERE????

that is not a slow burn, there’s absolutely no content there to consume. I’m running back to da2 after this, i miss my family so bad.

none of the romances in dragon age have been particularly explicit and it is NOT about the fade to black sex scenes (although BG3 spoiled me, i will admit): it’s about the yearning, the push and pull between ur Warden, Hawke and Inquisitor and their respective romances.

Anders was absolutely insane for his ‘I would drown us both in blood’. Cullen getting flustered cos of the Inquisitor??? Fenris laughing then immediately going 😐 cos he realised Hawke made him laugh? Alistair’s sweet romance with the warden??? His rose, his famous ‘I’ll be standing over here until the blushing stops’. Solas’ romance was notorious for having 3 sprinkled scenes in between a 60+ hour game with no sex scene and to this day, it is one of the most moving romances i have encountered in any media.

I don’t know why they said this was the most romantic dragon age ever lmfao like let’s stop lying out of our asses now pls !

[lazylittledragon]

if you don’t mind me asking, what race and class do you play as in bg3 for cyra, dorian, and ashe?

dorian is a half wood elf ranger, cyra is a high elf rogue and ashe is a high elf bard!

for subclasses dorian is a beastmaster, cyra is a thief and ashe is college of swords

[annelisreadingroom]

Here is the book I got last month from my book subscription package. Have any of you read it?

[bidoofenergy]

i get why people don't like neelam but i can't say a bad word about her because i WAS her and honestly sometimes still am

[e-resources]

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treat! have a small collection of bands blinkies !!