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Why won’t they give her a name!!!!!!!

This book probably should’ve been three books

“Lastly, he attributes altruistic suicide to both a principle cause (excessive subordination) and a secondary one: the presence of regulations.”
I am so charmed by this sentence structure. The primary cause listed in parentheses and the secondary detailed after a colon? What an absurd decision! Delightful!! I’m going pspspsps at it

This play is about us

“They believe in the white man’s god.”
“Do you believe in the white man’s god?”
“No. He’s of no use in the forest.”

300-4000 dollars for securing a pilot’s license. Oh.

“I think, possibly, I gained as much from travel as from curricula”

Thank you Phia for giving me a reason to reread this. WRITING + HIKING DAY SOON!!!!

The choice of reading “if. If. If.” Like a HEARTBEAT. HOLY SMOKES. INCREDIBLE DECISION

“In my father’s eyes, if you weren’t perfect, you simply _weren’t_”

I came here to type that prev note, and in the three seconds it took my library loan to respond to my pause request, the narrator made reference to “dexamethasone.” The trawling damage is going to be even more extensive than originally anticipated, I think.

This book is a challenge. I love Picoult, and I already love this story, but I think it’s one of those books that’s going to drag a heavy trawl net along the inside of my person and tear up my inner ecology.

WENDY’S AUDIOBOOK READER (Brittany Pressley) DOES THE NERVOUS LAUGH AT THE END OF HER SENTENCES!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE. ALSO JAMES MONROE IGLEHART!!! I KNEW THAT WAS HIM!!! REBECCA SOLER TOO????

Going from Picoult to this feels like going from slowly eating a salad to downing a pixie stick like a shot

“Pah-Ho-EE-Ho-EE” lava lmao

I KNEWWWWWW IT WAS MANCHINEEL!!!! MY ROMAN EMPIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE this audiobook reader, but she pronounced the j in jacaranda. Ma’am. No.

I can’t believe she said she enjoyed the mystery of the mist and NEITHER of them made a joke about the *mist-ery* of the mist. A *mist* opportunity, I would say

“My god, life is so much more than the science we’re taught!”

🗣️KAHO’OLAWE MENTIONED🗣️

Dnf

This is sooooo unrealistic and I love this for her (the book)

What a delightfully improbable premise!!! LOVE

Reading this in Autumn in The Country

“It was a known bug. Humans didn’t travel well. Take them from one part of the planet to another and their typical response was to get sick and fall down”

“What those waterlogged troops discovered that afternoon was an age-old truth, one that had governed history up to that point: moving things [beat] is hard”

Boyce writes high schoolers like someone who knows undergrad and grad students and thinks “high school students are basically the same, right?”

Delighted to ruin my sleep schedule for this