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Heartstopper (2022)/S3E3 · Talk/Isaac's assembly read: This Is How You Lose the Time War
Heartstopper · Season 3, Episode 3, "Talk"

Isaac's assembly read: This Is How You Lose the Time War

Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan) · First school assembly of the year

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First assembly of the new school year, and Isaac is lost in a sci-fi novella. He keeps reading it for the rest of the day. The headteacher's speech never had a chance.

Sources: All the books Isaac reads in Heartstopper, season three, Meeghan reads · Every book that Isaac reads in Heartstopper, Kobo · Isaac's reading list in Heartstopper season 3, Nose in a Book · Every Book Isaac Reads in Heartstopper Season 3, Den of Geek · A Complete Heartstopper Book List, The Geeky Waffle
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This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone · 2019 · novella

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's 2019 novella is a love story told in letters between two agents on opposite sides of a war across time. It won the Hugo. Two people falling for each other through texts is also the plot of Heartstopper season one, just with more time travel.

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