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“How much easier her life would be if she were rich. For while the pious claim money doesn’t buy happiness, I can attest from personal experience that poverty buys nothing. It is a monster whose claws grow deeper and more difficult to escape with each passing season, with even the slightest misstep setting you back years, if not forever.”

“What is what for? Gender? It’s for communication. It helps people understand who I am.”

“And who is that?” sneered Spira.

“Myself! I can’t explain it better than that. I’ve tried both, and I’ve tried neither, and this one is correct. This is how I look most like myself.”

“Tess knew no sword-fighting terms, but each of the countess’s moves seemed to suggest its own name: goat-skip, swirly swisher, skewer-thy-neighbor.”

Page 6 and I have a prediction. Page 46 and my prediction seems to have stronger evidence. We’ll see if it comes true…

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I just finished Chapter 4 and my brain has decided that Yancy is a total anarchist bent on destroying elitist enclaves. I will revise this thought if it turns out that I am wrong.

Strike 1: the PDF provided for the Hugo Awards voter packet is unreadable because the watermark is so dark that it obscures the text. Unfortunately this means I’ll either have to find another copy to read, or just not read this before voting. The wait for the ebook from my library is 15 weeks.