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This book is incredible.

The elements—water, earth, fire, air—are our greatest friends, our animators. They feed us, warm us, give us life, and yet conspire to kill us at every juncture.

John Boyne is such a gifted writer!

A dozen or more cattle and sheep dot the fields of my closest neighbor, whose farmhouse stands atop a hill, perhaps ten minutes’ walk from my door. “This is where I live now,” I say aloud, and my voice doesn’t sound like my own. Perhaps it’s something in the island acoustics, an inharmonious meeting point between water, earth, fire, and air. It’s hard to believe I’ve landed in such a place.

Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon ****

Interesting short story that reads like a fable.

Becky Chambers is such a great writer!

The elephant is enormous, but it is not as gigantic as the history of human exploitation.

…about what he had called, during other fights, Anthony’s need to perform “ritual murder.” About the hypocrisy of cloaking that need in some idea about conservation. … You are just a spectacularly rich man who gets his kicks killing animals.

She [Damira] had come back to get more support for the war against the poachers in Kenya. That is what it was—a war. She called it a war because that was the word she thought might get people’s attention. And she called it a war because, just like every war, it existed only for the people it was happening to. Like every war, it was particular to a place and time. Everywhere else, it could be ignored.

This is fun! I’d kind of forgotten how much I enjoy Becky Chambers.

Philip K. Dick is a master of dialogue.

”Their mother’s mind was a set of inviolable laws most of which had been forgotten or repealed by the rest of the world, including those nearest her.”

”Her (Brendan’s mother’s) tone implied, as it had always implied when things were contrary to her wishes, that his actions would lead him to the poorhouse or jail or the insane asylum.”