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"If the last few years have shown us anything, they have shown us that greater people than you and I have fallen."

This book is older than I am. Sin is eternal, man.

Hulda, I will beat you with a rusty wooden spoon...

Okay, I was on board before, but Serilda you absolute dipshit...

Where is September 10th, Studio Kirkland? I got the email, but there's no entry in the book.

"Mickey Seven"
Excuse me, what now??

"They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word."

Still a retcon, but fine.

Me: I've read these books before, maybe the emotional impact of them is just less cause I generally know how things go now.
-end of chapter 4-
Me: -uncontained wiggles- It's the boi!

Omg, it's the ankles meme out in the wild.

That whiplash of a reminder that Nick Offerman was, indeed, in Miss Congeniality 2.

"...for it's likely editors have more sense nowadays."

*awkward cough*

"...since the war of 2020."

Wait, wtf, this came out in 2012. XD

"Macho... He repeated it quietly, surprised at himself for enjoying a quiet sound more than a loud one. And the quieter he said it the deeper he could feel it, deeper and deeper."

"He must do something. For somebody. That was the secret. It was often the secret with him: to do something for somebody. It took him out of himself, it gave him, sympathetically, other people's feelings. It made him feel generous, made him feel worthy, that he had a right to ask something of life."

"What a nonsensical way of fooling himself out of distress: he wanted the memory, provided he didn't have to remember."

It's trying so hard to be magic spooky We Were Liars.

Ooh, a Pinkerton.

Wtf?

"In our day, one of the most powerful stories we've been told is that people are inherently lazy and don't really want to work... That story is untrue."

"The way we work is a choice... So why not shape paid work so that it sustains human life and ensures that there is time to share the unpaid work of care and connection - and for the leisure and joy that feed the soul?"

"Either you devote yourself to your job in the public sphere and postpone or forgo a rich home life, or you choose to have a family to love and care for in the private sphere and limit your expectations..."

"But Americans spend among the longest hours engaged in paid work of any advanced economy - save South Korea."

Why does none of that surprise me?

Dewberry you say? 👀

The Divergent is strong with this one.

"It's a specific art form with intuitive... parameters and expectations."

Probably will be coming back to this concept when I review the book.

*screaming*

Good thing I'm good at masking my emotions, or I'd have launched this sermon sermonizing mess all the way across this Dunkin.

I will probably finish this book. But not today. Not while I'm already stressed out and frustrated by work. I have to be in the right headspace to be this violently let down by a book.

Using this as a stand-in for The Portal since Goodreads doesn't have an entry for it, and won't let me upload it myself.

Saying "as I writer I hate this and would never write it" before proceeding to write exactly that in your very fictional book does not make you clever, it makes you a jackass.