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“she ran like she was running from something”

line of all time

hey did you guys hear? addie larue has seven freckles. jsyk, seven of them. freckles. in case you forgot? seven freckles

I want to enjoy this but I have too many questions. what happens when she’s spending a day with someone and they inevitably need to go to the bathroom? and when james sees photos of himself in the tabloids with some mystery girl, does he not wonder if he’s losing his kind because he can’t remember any of it?? maybe these get answered but in the meantime, they’re taking me out of it

i dearly love being in el’s head

i am 87% in and just now getting an explanation as to why humans continue to colonize space when it comes at immense financial and personal cost. this book pmo, especially because i was expecting to like it 😭

sorry wait, coffee is coffee, cinnamon rolls are cinnamon rolls, lattes are lattes, but biscottis are thimblets? I think I ask too many questions for this world building

I’ve suspended my disbelief for a lot of this… but did that kid have an electric guitar????

“Mythical generalities of what built this country and made it great must now give way to consideration of keeping contractual obligations due to the Indian people. Morality must begin where immorality began.”

written in 1969—could not be more relevant now.

already giggling. vine deloria jr, you were such a gift

this mc is so scary. it’s a short book but I set it aside for a full two days after he obsessively combed through his foster sister’s room & belongings just… because he wanted to? I’m really struggling to understand what the author was going for here

“[Colonel Maynadier] was surprised to see tears well up in Spotted Tail’s eyes; he did not know that an Indian could weep.” (125)

^ this is shortly after Spotted Tail’s daughter died of illness. the level of dehumanization of Native peoples, on such a sweeping scale across the U.S., is astounding.

really wanted to like this book but i am only vaguely invested