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There’s evil in this world

The narrator for this audiobook has the most wistful tone and it’s working beautifully

“I’ve been won to the side of schoolteachers and nurses, and lost all allegiance to plastic explosives. No homeland I can claim as mine would blow up a struggling, distant country’s hydroelectric dams and water pipes, inventing darkness and dysentery in the service of its ideals”

“Watching my father, I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

I thought I would kill two birds with one stone by reading my first Calvino AND doing a palate cleanser of “books about people who are split in half”

The percentage at which I begin to like other people’s two star reviews, if you like foreshadowing

Boy is it rough to have references to Harry Potter and coraline within two minutes of each other

Let’s do something with the big reveal!

“You show them love. And if that doesn’t save them, they’re not worth saving.” I’m uh not so sure that we are taking good lessons from this book

It feels so wrong to dislike a fifth grader this much but in my defense she is a fifth grader as imagined by a grown up

Noting for posterity that this is the page where I thought “okay that’s enough of this premise” editors need to get in the same rooms as the books they are theoretically working on

Underlining like a mad thing

Oh Emily Emily queen of understated sexy future past depression

Great choice to follow up private rites like this

This twelve year old and I already have beef bc wdym science facts are BORING and NOT MAGICAL AND MIRACULOUS

This woman is really stupid