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I don't know about this yet. It's cool that it's referencing the lyrics verbatim but part of me feels like that's just lazy writing? I love the retelling from Christine's perspective though.

I don't know why this is taking me so long to read. I love a character-driven story, but I feel like I've been trying to make my way through this for a month.

This is already un-put-down-able. I am so intrigued.

Yep, this is still the best book in the series.

I hate Tamlin! I hate Tamlin! I hate Tamlin! *continues shouting incessantly into the air*

I forgot how much of a nightmare Tamlin is.

I would be far more upset and confused than K. is at this point, but maybe I just overreact.

I forgot how much the Under the Mountain section stressed me out the first time I read it.

Yep, this is a depressing journey into what happens when people take advantage of you; between the spite and the discontent of the majority of the family to Gregor's hints at internalized guilt, it's very accurate.

This is so gratuitous.

I thought I would be getting more talk about classics than I would talk about Mary Beard. If you're going to make a memoir, put something on the cover or summary about it being a memoir. (Can you tell I'm not a big memoir fan?)

I can already tell that this is going to be a good commentary on burnout. Plus the whole "people only like you when you're useful to them" thing hits home.

This is very poetic, and does an excellent job creating an apocalyptic feeling to it. I do think, however, that this would be better experienced on the stage than read since a lot of the stage notes fall flat to me.

The female narrator is hilarious.

I'm having an existential crisis about Goodnight Moon and I'm loving it.

As someone who has dealt very closely with the subject of death in the past two years, I'm interested to see how Gawande broaches the subject in this book from the perspective of someone actively in the medical field.

In this set of short stories, the first two so far have been so-so, but the third one is currently pretty good.