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I thought this was a good idea and I have been trying to enjoy it (and see past Alice's toxicity) but my respect is slowly draining away and this section with pretending to be French when they can't even speak it fluently (maybe it's supposed to be funny?) is so irritating that I am now sighing that I am only halfway into this long, tedious book :(

I'm finding the second person (you) weird, it makes me feel like this is a choose your own adventure. I'm not sure what the thinking behind it is. Maybe the ideal reader would strongly identify with the protagonist...that means I am far from the ideal reader. So far it's not been my cup of tea, I can't help unfavourably comparing it to Scatterlings (another book which starts with no memory/identity but more substanti

The portrayal of mental illness in this book makes me really angry. Is it too much to ask writers to even do a cursory fact check before shooting their mouth of. In this case the stigma-circulating does not even advance what story there is. Zoloft as a dangerous drug roflmao. But also do a fact check when writing about medical conditions. Also the way psychology is portrayed in this book is BS

There is far too much going on in this book already and over 300 more pages of thislevel of conflict and drawn out emotion to go :/ as well as quotes like this: "He loved gossip more than a woman; appropriate, considering he was as queer as a three dollar bill". Hard to believe that sentence was published this century. Sigh

I'm mostly enjoying this but it really is time to permanently retire the tedious and unhelpful cliche of two men fighting over a woman. It would be problematic even if it was not so bloody hackneyed and unoriginal,. Please stop! Apart from that this is good

I see this has had a lot of four-five star reviews and I previously have enjoyed Vaun's work but I am just not feeling it. The world building and character development seem sloppy and half-hearted. There seems to be a strong centre-right political ideology that is given precedence over features that would make it more readable (I hope that breaks down before the end of the book -that would be a welcome twist).

I've heard of "compulsory heterosexuality" but the joyless shenanigans of Jennifer are so wearying to even read about. And it's all portrayed as a biological imperative. Sigh. Where do people get this sort of shit idea from?

Every time I think I am acclimatising to this mess it becomes a little more yikes. Now Claire has to take on a womanising, hard-drinking, selfish Henry and turn him into someone good (not that he has groomed her from age 6 to do this). He's been out sowing his wild oats but she of course gets to be passive and wait for him between visits and have no adventures. Were people still thinking like this in 2003? I guess so

I don't know if I will get through this syrupy writing but also the premise of the story seems to be a man travels back in time and grooms little girl to grow up to marry him. I'm not sure why the cover refers to this profoundly disturbing idea as "sexy" or why so many people gave it 5 stars. It doesn't even seem all that original (maybe there's a twist?)

It's interesting so far. Certainly hope (and the grit it should lead to) needs to be something we all think about. Goodall's story seems relevant to that.

Braidotti's obvious crush on Irigaray is funny and also kind of tragic considering Irigaray's whole thing is "radical heterosexuality". I'm liking some of this book overall but finding much to leave behind in the 90s

I'm finding this a struggle to read. It has the pacing of a Virginia Woolf but without the feminism or philosophy so kind of an empty phallocentric shell. There's a female protagonist but she's a male construct of a "faithful wife" and hasn't any interests apart from wifehood. I will keep reading (sowly) but I am b-o-r-e-d

rereading this- mostly because now I am smarter than I used to be and understand it better but also for reading group

Absolutely loving some parts of this and finding other parts troubling. Definitely worth reading

This is very interesting. Even though most of it doesn't directly relate to my thesis I can see why my supervisor got me to read it and I will probably use some of the ideas in it.

I will finish this book...I guess. But it's really irritating me. It's incredibly generic and vanilla-conservative for an Australian YA book and the setting is sketchy. Also the incredibly spoilt protagonist is very immature for a rural aussie kid (or indeed most teens I've met)

Passing on p14. OMG I rarely love a poem so much!

Weidly conservative for a futuristic book published on the threshold of the 21st century. So far pretty homophobic and big on the heterosexual propaganda (women want husbands and babies more than other things and this is best). So far so bad. Also all the leaders appear to be men

I am going to give this book until the end of the chapter to lift its game but more than likely it will become a DNF. The constand misogyny is unbearable, all the men are predators and somehow that's depicted as OK and the women are all unreasonable bitches. The protagonist just whinged internally at her office looking "dykey". I rolled my eyes so hard it's a miracle I can still read

"Silk tops for my sister Amanda; she was older, shorter and rounder than me." (344). Just WHY???? This is filled with pointless slow, sluggish details and this one makes it seem like a passive aggressive revenge fantasy

It's instalove which some people like in a romance (less drama) but I am demi-ace in my real life so I find it incomprehensible. And then I hyperfixate on discrepencies like she chose nothing but the purple cushions for herself on p37 but she chose the furtniture to get the effect she wanted on p50. Don't know if it's just my mood although it's raining and should be romance reading weather

It started off quite promising but seems to have turned into nanny slowly seduces hot boss trope and is moving slowly and mostly boring me (so....long....). The only good nanny seduces hot boss story I ever read was by Charlotte Bronte and even that was problematic

Can't remember why I bought this,. Either it was in a queer books recommendations list or because it had a grumpy librarian and books. Usually I steer clear of heaven and hell dramas and after this I will go back to doing that. It's hard to do logically and well...maybe impossible

OMG this book!!!!!

On p xxxi the author admits: "More than anything else, this book is a work of intuition.". That's an accurate claim and speaking as someone who is an actual educator in the real world and an educational researcher, the's the whole problem with this book :( so far anyway

I've been trying to read the things I don't like in this book as "tongue in cheek" or something, but i am more than a bit over it and the masculinity comment on p271 has made me realise I am making all these excuses for a man making me feel uncomfortable and I am not owning my real feelings which is...yuck. I'm nearly finished so I will finish but this is disappointing...

One of the things that is bothering me is the premise that extinction of species is sad, it's tragic on an aesthetic or emotional level only but that humans will survive it. In fact we are more bound to other species than that. It's unclear in the book why ALL bird life has died out, but in real life it would be because insects die out and that would be catastrophic for agriculture

Intriguing, sad, frighteningly honest and tragic so far. I can't even find it in me to disapprove of the creepy professor because Fran is so obviously her own person, or owned by birds not by the patriarchy