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“I intent to take seriously the experiences of disabled people in a world that often considers technology the ‘solution’ to the ‘problem’”

“When people posit disability as a ‘problem’, they look for solutions. Disabled people can and do have problems…however, many of our problems are social, structural, and practical problems that stem from the idea that disabled people are flawed.”

This might be blasphemy, but does anyone else..not love…the dialogue in this book?

“She would not feel guilty or sorry or ashamed or any of things he and the world wanted her to feel. She would not put her own needs and ambition on the shelf.”

Most of the reviews for this book are from DNF’ers. I’m trying so desperately to slog through this book. I always tell other people “abandon a book if it’s boring!!” and I’m struggling to take my own advice because I AM genuinely interested in the plot…it just moves…so….slowly.

Ugh. DNF. Too slow of a slow burn. Too many extraneous details. Get on with it, already!

“Selkies and kelpies and faeries entertain themselves on human foibles and on our impossible desires for love and safety, and yet we don’t stop seeking these things.”

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”

“Love the earth like we failed it. To put it plain, we have shipwrecked the earth. Soiled the soil and run aground the ground. Listen. We are the loud toll on this planet. Our future needs us alarmed.”

“We find ourselves not by being the most seen, but by being the most seeing.”

“It is the nightmare, never the dream, that shocks us awake.”

“We were told never to use ‘I’ when writing, Because eliminating this voice makes arguments legitimate.”

“Grief is an anchor in a sea of anguish.”

"Let's read a science fiction book. It'll be completely different." I'm almost a quarter of the way in and I'm finding it doesn't vary that much from a mystery or even comedy novel. The shift in timeline from present to past is just enough to add suspense to the timeline and enough plot to make an other wise basic "woke up from a coma on a spaceship" narrative more interesting.

40% through and still waiting for something to happen. At this point, I’ll take anything!

Strangely fascinating.

Beautiful so far!