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"Among the uncountable pleasures the McQueen family has stolen from Junie, their most profound theft is stealing her right to scream."

“You’re my middle C.”
“Middle C?”
“The key between the lows and the highs, the balance of it all, the true center of the music.”

(things that are unseen and their lightness, and their weightiness)

the weight of guilt

Caleb and Junie’s banter - so cute!

Book 2 Chapter 1 is filled with memorable quotes on writing and stories and understanding and thinking about what is a life. Beauty.

“The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.”

I was disengaged and then chapter 10 locked me in. Maya’s despondence and grief; Psyche’s description, seeds planted from previous chapter; mortal shame; bridegroom coming. 👌

lol this is somehow both bonkers and meandering so far and apparently if just keeps going. A spy - rather than detective - story with great dollops of “I guess this is happening now, ok” and soapbox-level whinges.

‘The Pedestrian’ continues in the same vein of other stories in this anthology regarding a future where robotic and cookie-cutter belief of how everyone should act wins over individualism, imagination, and curiosity.

‘The Man’ was a short story about faith that I didn’t expect but was not bad. Though I’m reading this as an audiobook and the narrator has a forceful shout that can be off-putting and I don’t enjoy.

‘Time in Thy Flight’ is a very short story similar to the vampire/zombie story (‘Pillar of Fire’?) on nostalgia and things that may be lost in future culture (western-centric).