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Forgot how much I liked Elma.

This style of writing.
“After a few months, my guilty conscience presents his dream come true: I’m ready, or so I say. Too slow for Ryan and too fast for me. Much of marriage is some permutation of mismatched desires, like a three-legged race. And desires become indistinguishable.”

Jane Austin and the age seven and twenty years need to fight it out. 😂

“To realize that the unseen
Which I many times deem as opposition
is more often just the unknown
of a daring proposition.
We need more skeptics, not cynics.
One’s discerning, the other doesn’t believe.”

Chapters 1-9 bombshell after bombshell. So good but also incredibly difficult. Listening to this one as an audiobook and hearing the raw emotion in her voice … damn.

The bullying by parents, peers and coach are enough to make anyone’s blood boil. If this ever happens to my future kids, there won’t be peace. It’s amazing that she still stayed kind to other athletes during such a difficult period of her life.

“‘But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.’” The David/Jaques dynamic gives me the impression of disliking someone for all the parts of yourself you see in them. It’ll be interesting to see how they compare at the end.

Damn, this is good.

“Anna and Tom had grown up with the notion that individuality manifested itself as a set of visual differences, immediately decodable and in constant need of updating.” Want to remember this one.

“I decide on a more tactile approach: I’m gonna start pushing buttons!”

Yup, definitely side quest to complete main quest vibes. Fun, just difficult to get through so many new characters and stories. The main character’s name continues to be a mystery.

No idea what the main character’s name is yet. Randomness so far, which is giving “complete the side quests before you can complete main mission” in a video game vibe.

Listening to this as an audiobook since Matthew Perry read it himself. Wanted to hear what he emphasized as he spoke. I can see why some people may dislike this book; because, this individual who is easy to idolize, is being brutally honest about his short-comings and addictions. Never easy when your expectations of who someone is, are shattered.

Didn’t expect to get so sucked in.

“In retrospect, Suzuki, of course, should have published his result. There is a lesson to all this, I suspect: Never take too seriously the advice of your superiors.”
Appreciating the delivery of the historical context accompanying these theories. Plus, Michio Kaku is a passionate speaker so it’s fun imagining his voice saying comments like these.

May DNF. Fun premise, the banter is engaging, but Sebastian is annoying.

“Einstein noticed that the prescience of the sun warps the path of light from distant stars.” It’s fun how complicated things are resolved with simple revelations.

Terribly difficult book to read. Reminds me of “All Quiet on The Western Front” although that is more eloquently written. Both books have incredibly intense moments.

Revisiting this series years after the 2nd book. Glad I gave myself the breather. All of the characters have big emotions which are the primary plot drivers. (Seesaw). Throughout this series I have felt conflicted about their motives and relationships, still do. In the final stretch … see where it goes.

“If love was all the same water, perhaps it lapped a bit differently on each shore that it touched? Or perhaps it shaped itself differently to the depth and breadth of the vessels that contained it? Enjoy what you have, Thomas wrote.”
Books like this are meant to be read slowly. The little details interwoven and spread about, are so lovely.

“Anemones, small, tentacled predators that come in a wild and colorful assortment of species, were one of Carson’s favorite animals.”
This feels fitting of Carson. I imagine her second favorite to be squids … maybe?

Quote: “Mr. Parnassus nodded. ‘Even if you have spiders in your brain?”’

Reminded me of the grinch’s song.

“It’s the little things. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It’s beautiful, when you think about it.”

Nothing like scaring the guy besides you at the gym because of a book declaration. Knew the info would come out … not like that though. I don’t think I’ll survive the second half of this damn book.