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Water rat: Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing-so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing…

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

I’m only on page 14 but I can’t put it down. This is wildly good.

A lot of fun. A great holiday read methinks.

The drive in incident either the scissor lift and the moths. So funny 😆

The Pooh journal issue! 😅😅😅😅😅

This is in the chapter called 15 reasons I might not sleep tonight. Number one. I’ve spent the past two hours holding a bright piece of glass close to my face, which contains all the knowledge and idiocy of humanity. This is a bad way to relax before bed. I am aware of it, but I’ll continue to have my little phone scroll before I try to sleep because I am weak. And I like the jokes and dog videos.

Astrid really is funny. Here is the quote. If you were the last person left on an apocalyptic scorch world do you think you’d really still do beauty treatments? Sweet Lucifer knows I would not. I’d grow all the hair on my body from head to die and combine every strand into one practical greasy mega braid.

Every day in the classroom felt like I’ve been booked as an entertainer for the worlds worst solo gig that lasted from 8 am to 4 pm. They said they sucked, the audience hated me and nobody was listening. Teaching felt like yelling poetry into a jet engine; futile, but something to pass the time I guess.

The music wasn’t a performance for anybody. It was shared hopeful experience. I’d never witnessed anything so beautiful or collaborative. Eulas Liye nobody and everybody was in charge. I was wildly shovelling my head to take it all in but every other person in the room was lost in the moment offering up the unique Voice to each other and beyond.

‘ I wanted to love Jesus, who just like me wore opened-toed shoes in formal settings.’ This lady is funny.

Woah. I have a feeling this will be a 5 star.

Still not sure the overlap between the 2 narratives

I’m already charmed

Not what I expected

I’ve had 2 chuckles so far.

Oh my lord. I haven’t laughed this much at a book in ages. Charming

This is the funniest book I’ve listened to in a long time. Wonderful

“I did not participate in these feelings, for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful.” So much of this book is about guilt, shame and remorse. Peace of mind is everything.

If I read 3 pages a day, I’ll read the 1096 pages in a year. I can do it!

‘Ah but Gabriel,’ Caspian said, eyes lighting up. ‘It is those who feel like they don’t belong who are most welcome at Crookhaven. Do you know why?’ Gabriel shook his head. ‘ Because it is the outsiders, the forgotten, the ones who’ve always felt like they DONT belong, who end up changing the world.’ [never a truer word spoken. I’m thinking Steve jobs and bill gates].

After saying most thieves wear suits,Caspian says ‘That is, in essence, what we do here at Crookhaven: we do wrong to put the world right.’ What fun.

My son told me I HAD to read this. Currently in a coffee shop in Leederville waiting for him to finish a D&D session and doing precisely that.

The story hits its straps at chapter 4. Chapter 7 - fix the monster take vengeance by finding and murdering his little brother?? This is creepy.

Great description of money

I like his description of your thirties of a kind of wasteland he was running to Russia to get away from