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So far already goes over quite a lot I've missed of world events the past few years, and with a focus on the process of how various far-right leaders came to be in power rather than focusing only on the events afterwards.

I really like the translator's note at the start, it's nice to know what differs from other versions straight up and what thought went into different translation choices.

"What we should be afraid of on this bright new year's morning is apparently not Y2K but what we might call the year 2001 bug – for that is the year in which, according to Clarke and Kubrik's haunting '2001 – A Space Odyssey', the electronic brain of the computer known as HAL 9000 will take cold logic to its worst extreme and commit murder."

– Steve Grand, 'Creation: Life and How to Make It'

I love the main character so much.

Oh book have mercy! I've barely started and already cried! I am suspicious and intrigued about what is yet to come...

I've just signed up for City Library's '6 Book Challenge For Busy Adults'. Just what I need to get myself back into reading this year :3 http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/faci...

Something I never do: re-read a book within a year. I am definitely re-reading this as soon as I'm finished.

I think I am going to re-read this as soon as I'm done, which is something I have never done before.

"They had built castles in the sand at the bar of the little river. These castles were about one foot high and were decorated with shells, withered flowers, and interesting stones. Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks, walls, railway lines, that were of significance only if inspected with the eye at beach-level."