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I really liked the first story but why did it have to finish so abruptly?

For some reason the "oi" she keeps saying really bugs me

"I was born with a vastness inside me, and sometimes I feel it will swallow me up."

"Normally if you asked a space agency to send a probe to Venus in under a year, they'd laugh in your face. But it's amazing what you can do with an unlimited budget. The United States, European Union, Russia, China, India, and Japan all helped cover costs."

Getting them to all work together is the real science fiction here.

It's a slow one. I haven't gotten into it yet and don't even look forward to reading it, but it suits so many of my reading challenges that it's a shame not to finish it 🤣

Everytime the scene is in her apartment, this chick has to mention that there's too much stuff. Clean out then, Marie-Kondo it or something

The cover is really not my style, haha 🙈

87% inand I just realized that at a certain moment I haven't even known when for some crazy reason I've started to root for this very unlikable main character. This book is GOOD

"The girls Shannon went to school with,the ones who loved me?They would never be able to leave the maze.(...)what we offered them,was the next best thing: little moments of vicarious living.(...)This is what it would be like if you were as rich and beautiful and hardworking as me.This is what it will never be like for you."

"So I did what any good Christian woman would do whe she can no longer bear to do nothing: I went to my mother in tears, and she instructed me to call his mother in tears, and then his mother called him in a hurricane of humiliation and fury." 🤣🤣🤣

"While my mother hummed the melody to "Lamb of God", I gazed up at the sky and prayed furiously for death."
Yeah, postpartum depression is a thing.

"The birth rate was plummeting. Humanity was self-immolating. The white race was going extinct." Oh no, not THAT 🤣🤣🤣

"this was the world I was born into: a world where good Christian women moonlighted as crisis managers for their good Christian men."

Wth am I reading here? 😅

"When I arrived in middle school, I was shy and quiet and bookish. I craved the camaderie of conformity but never quite got it right-I had boring hair and uncool clothes and read books that had dragons and wizards in them. I worked hard not to be noticed, so naturally the popular kids made a point of noticing me in all the wrong ways."
This describes my school experience to a t.

No 😭

"I regretted things, sure. Words said, words not. Words I could have-should have-said differently. But did I regret those years as a whole? The years we held hands, and he led while I lost myself in book after book, dreaming of the stories we'd make together, and never did?"

"But like Gemma realizing that her life went on regardless of whether she was in it, I began to realize my life wasn't stopping, either. It would go on regardless of wether I burrowed my head in the sand and stayed stock-still."

"He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne-cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback."
How is it that everyone is the romance books is always some kind of perfume master?

2/2
They ignore the life-giving palm fruit
for its slippery, sweet profits
and cannot see even a glimmer of gold
for the riches it yields.

They do not care about
honoring the stars or
the magnificent sky
that houses them,
only that they can use it
to guide them toward
plunder.

The mighty river
that births us, to them
is a speedy path
to our destruction.

This place
is not a castle
of anything good.
(...)

1/2 GRAVE TROUBLE
The wonderfuls bring misery
and destruction to those
who do not look like them.

Their eyes covet the whole earth
and they see us as shadows
to step on.

They do not care
of our celestial origins,
that we descended
from the Great Good above.

They do not respect
our traditions
our heroic past
the power of women
the wisdom of elders
and spiders
the joy of peace.