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So one cup of coffee does not send the ghost to the bathroom, neither do four, but eight do?! Insanity.

Things happen, but do I care?

A point for making me cry. Alzheimer's

Don't ghosts go to the bathroom?

Wdym The Woman In The Dress only goes to the bathroom once a day while ordering *multiple* coffee refills? Make is make sense

Page 420/437.The last 80 pages really brought our five characters together- Walter mentions how he accompanied his father to a developer's office that bought out the old hotel he'd bought a few years back and has only caused financial misery for him,that's when he first saw Justin Lim, 2 years younger than him, and keeps track of him through the years as Walt gains incredible wealth (better busi. ventures than dad's)

Master at arranging a scene.

Walter lives in an unfurnished luxury apartment and has all kinds of self help, become rich books and claims he wrote Phoebe's favorite, Secrets of a Five Star Billionaire, under a pseudonym. Is he the fraud the bank lady warned Yinghui from? D-R-A-M-A!

At this point I'm not sure this novel is going to have any sort of conclusion or a tied up end for its characters. Walter will tire of datingPhoebe, or more likely shr'd be tired of him. Justin will maybe partner up romantically with Yinghui and they'd become a business power couple. Gary will rebuild his career and Phoebe will fall into his arnms when he confesses his true identity ob their nighttime chats. Too long

explores loneliness from all angles. Dark and depressing at times, uplifting at times, but always fascinating.

The exploration of characters and their relationship, how they argue, what makes them cave or not express themselves as coherently as they're used to is so real and raw. I love it. The emphasis on urban exploration, discussions on gentrification and land greed and developement on top of historic yet unwanted building is heart wrenching. Shanghai vs Kota Bharu, KL vs its subrubs, it's all so lovingly described.

Unputdownable.

Except Phoebe, all POVs are mainly flashbacks and reflecting on their past, which is interesting but feels a bit repetitive.

Mapping the human genom

Most of the book feels like a long Wikipedia article solely about the experiment that supposedly concludes with most of the foxes being stolen for their furs, but then towards the end you jump back in time and it goes on a tangent about human evolution and the science of animal behavior and then linking it back to the fox experiment. It results in an non uniform chapter structure and was weird.

In chapter 11, Gary is caved in his hotel room, ruined. And we're told what the journalists swarming his hometown would kill to know - how he came to this world and what happened to him before being sent away to live rural w his uncle. His mother fell in love w her piano teacher, married him against her parents' will and was left to care for her baby after her husband left her multiple times.

Everybody's life is so richly described and writing is so dense and engaging.

I feel soaked in the magic of Shanghai nighttime. Justin who spent three depressing months in bed is finally opening up his laptop, deleting all his unread emails and in a sharp contrast to his previous state, is gently interacting with his neighbors. The shift from well of lonliness to exchanges with living breathing people is making my heart clench with pride and joy that he's going to rebuild his life.

Obtaining a group of foxes, selecting the tamest and calmest ones to mate with each other while monitoring for behaviors and signs of early domestication, like wiggling tail, nearing to sniff a hand, adults still playing with their pups even as they get older, and floppy ears. Then mating the foxes that presented these signs over a decade, so far. Now Ludmila makes a bold move and stars preparing a fox to live w/ her

The setting of Shanghai is emaculately evoked in all perspectives. They're all interesting and once you open this book you can't stop reading ' but ut's tough to open this book to begin with for some reason. I suspect it's because my edition has tiny font.

Ahhhhh what do you mean now he pets her not only on the head but her arms and accidentally fell asleep next to him and he likes it?!

A ryokan on an island and good food. Why can't she control her drinking?

One evening she gets super drunk in the Iyazaka with Sensei, because she has no boundries, she'd very lonely and has no sense of purpose of joy abouy her at all. She winds up cuddling Sensei in his apartment and confessing her love. Poor thing.