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In a way, I’m reminded of The Glass Castle, with the father insisting on doing things his way to the extreme detriment of his own family.

Why do we need one whole (LONG!!!) chapter of one character narrating her own personal death march

“‘One…two…three…four…’ The windows were being counted. ‘Five’. This word meant the fifth window from the end.”

Paid!! By!! The!! Word!!!

For Noden’s sake, someone get Stix her glasses

I keep zoning out and finding I haven’t missed a damn thing

I am oscillating wildly between “yeah this is the girl version of Catcher” and “this is SUCH a teenage book omg”

I love when a plan is so completely and utterly terrible that it’s only going to blow up in their faces

This feels very much like the girl equivalent of “Catcher in the Rye”

The secondhand embarrassment is clawing its way out of my throat and I hate it

This is excruciating to get through

Boy of boy was Dickens paid by the word or what

“Teacher’s pay was notoriously low and classrooms were often overcrowded.” Good to know nothing has changed since 1943

I’m going to have to pause this because the printing stops at page 122 and jumps to page 315, then prints those pages until page 155 and follows the story again.

Marylander here. It is absolutely hot outside at the end of June. Also Simon’s dickishness does not fit the reasoning for it—how the hell is he expecting to keep getting people in to help as cast if he runs off anyone who might not know what they’re doing yet because GASP, they make mistakes? Extremely non-proportional response, even knowing who these characters are based on.

This book drew me to it because I’m a DSO and help students apply for OPT just about every day. It’s set about 10 years prior to when I started in the field so I’m interested to see what’s changed—though the casual racism Pavitra encounters is sadly still common

THE ORIGINAL MPDG AND THE IDIOT WHO DOESN’T UNDERSTAND SHE’S NOT HERE TO FIX HIM