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Thought my book club for this was in a month and it's actually next week whoops

Rereading for book club. I love this series and revisiting the first book has been a treat.

Everyone seems to adore or despise this, time to form my own opinion...

"Sisters don't always get along. But even when we fight, we eat dinner together, like a religion. Always we are two apartments but one house"

"You know it's bad where you're living when you're worried about guns and see Texas as a safe alternative"

Reading for Wani Kani book club. This series is so cute. https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%...

Re-reading for a book club. I'd forgotten how much I like this book.

Took me long enough to get around to reading this. Been on my to read list for a very, very long time.

"Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend."

As one activist put it, "Sex trafficking is to sex work what domestic violence is to marriage... not all wives are victims, and neither are all sex workers."

"Just the act of walking into a different room made the subjects forget a lot of what was in the box. Even walking in and out of the same room had the same effect."

"if you don't make a fool of yourself over animals, at least in private, you aren't to be trusted."

"God I hate this place.
I mean, I love it. It's home. These are my people. But I hate it. It's like an island surrounded by sharks - except that sharks don't bother you unless you go in the water. But our land sharks are on their way in. It's just a matter of how long it takes them to get hungry enough."

This book looks lovely and I like the recipes so far, but I'm concerned about accuracy. One page says "see page XXX" for a reference to something else in the book. Literally just the letter X three times, they never went back and edited the number in. There are other typos too and it makes me worry if the recipes are accurate.

"I'm not. I'm not angry with you," Tonner said. And then, "I'm just angry. And you're here. So I'm being a little shit."

"Her younger self had wanted to rule her day with an iron fist; now, Yeongju soothed herself with the lists. Running through the tasks she needed to work on gave her confidence that it would be another day well spent."

"I have always known that I'm autistic. And yet I haven't had a clue."

"I'm a little envious of her openness to the world, where change is only the lure of imagined possibilities, not the agent of impending losses. But I know there is no barrier I can construct which will hold these losses back, that won't also shut me out, alone, and disconnected from the world."

"Time can vanish in exploring these places, like wandering through an art gallery of unexpected forms and colors. Sometimes, I look up from my microscope at the end of an hour, and I'm taken aback from the plainness of the ordinary world, the drab and predictable shapes."

"In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ants eat away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools."

Starting this to follow along with an older Wani Kani book club https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%...

"The position now was that the coastal regions of South Africa were English; the great interior plateau was Afrikaner; and on the fringes of both English and Afrikaner worlds lived the black men, doing the white man's work for him, steadily losing the dignity of their old ways of life."