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This 9 year old might not have a grasp on grammar and the mechanics of writing dialogue, but she has a bigger vocabulary than 80% of best selling authors do these days so I’m enjoying myself immensely. Also loved this: “He beat time to the music and smiled kindly at the waiters and he felt very excited inside. ‘I am seeing life with a vengeance,’ he muttered to himself.”

lol okay I’m reading this because I told Milo that I read all of the Nancy Drew books when I was little but never read a Hardy Boys book and he said I had to make up the discrimination 😂

One of many passages that has made me cry in this book, though maybe it won’t be as impactful out of context…

“Humans are social creatures.
That is our nature and our real strength.

… What defining action can a human do shortly after birth? Only one. Cry for help.”

I’m 2 chapters into this book and already have half a dozen quotes saved. it’s really lovely

I am absolutely hating this but I’ve come this far, I feel like I have to finish it. Ugh

“It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to things, inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one… There rose, and she looked and looked with her needles suspended, there curled up off the floor of the mind, rose from the lake, rose from the lake of one’s being, a mist, a bride to meet her lover.”

“To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.”

lmao I’ve been thinking about The Ogress and the Orphans the whole time I’ve been reading this book because it’s giving me the same feeling, but I didn’t realize until just now that it’s the same author! no wonder…

what a beautiful fairy tale - I don’t want to put it down but I have work to do :(

“Things that were dangerous had to be destroyed.” What a terrifying statement coming from the mind of Dorian Gray.. this book is starting to fill me with eager dread for what will happen in the next chapter.

“If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married.”

(I am thoroughly enjoying it now, the pace picked up immediately after that and now it’s pretty funny and Emma is exasperating but in an endearing way)

This book is really not hooking me like the others all did - I’m enjoying it but it’s hard to focus because I don’t find any of the characters (including Emma) all that compelling. It’s taken me like a month and I’m barely over halfway through!

Oops, accidentally read 200 pages in one day.

Master Kiprun has the vibes of Bumi from Avatar the Last Airbender and I hope SayShannon knows this is one of the funniest things she’s ever written

oh my GOD ! that twist!

I’m really bored and struggling to finish this so I might just give it another chapter or two and then DNF. The autistic representation is good but it’s about the only part of the writing that makes me feel something… the rest is just kind of flat and predictable. I know it’s partly because it’s YA and I’ve grown out of this kind of YA. I had just hoped it would be the kind I liked. Ah well!

god it’s just as good the second time

I forgot to update the page number lol