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So far I’m disappointed. I’d been expecting something a little sharper or more engaging than a step-by-step dissection of why expats are cringe. We’ll see?

I thought it would get easier after the big reveal, but it’s DRAGGING.

Narr comes to this cool spec fiction concept from the perspective of a teenaged girl. Unusual approach, she focuses on relationships and drama instead of the insanity of the situation (feels legit). Unfortunately I don’t care about her gossip, bc all of her friends suck. She never stops prattling on, cheap tactic to make you keep reading.

Margaret Atwood wannabe?

Love it so far! Honestly surprised by the low rating on here, I’ve found this to be a total page-turner that’s also teaching me a bit about Korean history and zest for revenge.

As a former agoraphobe and perpetual insomniac with depression for flair, I really thought I would relate more to this. It doesn’t seem to ring true, especially the first 100 pages.

Finally started feeling like there was something to grab onto in the past ~75 pages. Maybe it was just getting to Reva’s parents’ house and seeing their dynamic expand.

I assume Reva will die on 9/11, or at least a close call.

Absorbing, can’t stop reading. Feels good to get beachy during a deep winter freeze.

This book is full of quirky detail in a way that doesn’t feel forced. A marvel.

Now we’re killing horses too:(

Devastating and I’m glad I’m treating it. The dad sounds wonderful, I wonder if we’ll meet him.

Only sometimes feels hard to fully understand and love characters when it opens with killing a dog and then the kid just killed a turtle though

Once again, we have a fresh level of Mann pulling this while thing even closer together. Just finished the chapter Full Harmony, and what started out as an exploration of music ended up containing the jets too HC’s inner state and the results of his playing king for however many years it’s been. Love, death, the character of nations, all bound together with beauty.

So good. I’ve been loving this stretch with Mynheer Peeperkorn, it’s flown by. HC is fully cut off from the world, and has finally gained the love and brotherhood he’s craved this entire time. I wonder if that will change his outcome.

I absolutely love this book, and wish I’d gotten to it in 2018.

The extended meditations on time, illness, and death mimic my own experiences and add new depth. I think I may have managed to save myself some of that time if I’d seen an example of that waste in such detail.

Time started to blend during my surgical recovery, and is still stuck together now. I’ve never stopped recovering. How do I? Too late?