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"What was joy anyway? What was the worth of happiness that left behind a crater thrice the size of its impact?"

Every day is equal in value and no less important than all the others.

"But at least you know about Wallace now, don't you Hiroya. From reading that book. Now he's in your thoughts, and you're making a place for him to live on in this world. Don't you think that's enough?"

"I'm a place where Wallace lives on? Is that how you make a place for somebody - one person thinking about another?:

Struggling to suspend disbelief here. She's 17, menstruating, and no one has managed to figure her out (except her bedfellow novice - and that revelation was done without any sort of tension whatsoever). And the incident with getting rid of prefect Fang when he chased her through the monastery and she hit him over the head was ridiculous and farcical.

Author tries to build tension, then the resolution seems to quick and simplistic e.g. her stress about being discovered as a girl on bath day goes for a page, then she conveniently falls in to the bath fully clothed and gers banned from bath day thereafter.

Talking about the sociology of crime and motives behind violence. Why? And the chatty, immature asides are grating

A bit boring. I dont care about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Villages

Slow, very slow. And weighed down by bloated, verbose description.

So far, so boring

"There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realised that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one." Page 99

Teally good so far. Learnt about the Hussite wars which I had never heard of.