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“people like to divvy up one another with names. Jew. Catholic. German. Pole. But these were the wrong names. They were the wrong dividing lines. Kindness. Cruelty. Love and hate. These were the borders that mattered.”

“What did Ronald Reagan have to do with anything?”

….now my eye is twitching.

Someone remind me to talk to the kids at teen book club about freedom of speech.

I don't mind the narrator, but I really think it's the fault of the audiobook that I'm struggling with this book. I believe I'd like it better if I read it with my own eyes. Although, she's great at the Polish pronunciations.

WHY DO NARRATORS SAY RIFFLING INSTEAD OF RIFLING???

This cover is so embarrassing. So far this story isn’t not Howl’s Moving Castle.

I don’t like when protagonists make huge crazy decisions without consulting anyone else. That’s why I turned my back on Bones.

WELP. This is a LOT more sexual than the other Erin Craig books I've read. Someone remind me not to recommend it to very young teens at the library.

Is this…. eugenics?

Several more "watery eyes" since the last update. And now I'm realizing that there's been A LOT of nose wiping too. Are these kids okay? Allergies in the woods?

Wish I had the ebook so I could search how many times the author writes that someone's eyes are "watery."

Courtney Gould is so delightfully creepy

There’s just barely too many characters for me to keep track of. I think there’s 2 boys at this behavioral therapy thing in the woods. But I’m not 100% sure which is which.

This can of soup is full of chemicals? Oh I see. The author doesn’t actually know any science. Got it.

"Idiots make it into every company. They tend to interview well."

"One thing I've learned... people will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problem."

Oh I didn’t know there would be an explicit rape scene. Geez Louise. Stab him again.

“If I must be banished, I might as well be banished to the mountains.”

When I tell you I don’t remember the first book…

This narrator has the same speech patterns (which I think are more than just accent, but I'm not sure) as Bella Ramsey. Strange but not at all bad to listen to?

I miss the woman narrator. The man's voice is hard to pay attention to and sounds like his mouth is full of saliva.

This book feels like that meme of Steve buschemi with a hoodie and a skateboard saying “How do you do, fellow kids?”

Samantha Irby’s music taste has a lot of overlap with my sister’s. I would throw away the mixed tape she invents in this chapter