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Didn’t like the second story as much.

As a first chapter that was a chaotic shit show... what the hell.

So good so far.

Loving this.

It just keeps getting better.

In love with this so far.

‘This is important: the story of gendered time is not one of beastly oppressive men and poor downtrodden women. It’s a story of cultural scripts we all follow without thinking.’

‘The air was full of storms, but they refused to break.’

'There was a story once about mirrors and cold.'

"All this pretending, performing, it was her life's work."

‘and if you weren’t here you’d be somewhere else with a different name’

‘Wherever you are, alone with your revolver,
something the trees are saying must have stopped you.’

‘What’s near is distance.
What’s dear is far.’

I really want to like this but I'm not convinced I really care at this point. I could put easily put it down and never pick it up again.

There is a lot more discussion of grammar than I was expecting for a SciFi, it's slightly stressing me out. I thought I never had to think about the subjunctive again once I left school.

‘For all your so-called knowledge of the world, how come you don’t know that?’ I didn’t know what ma meant be my knowledge of the world. My knowledge of the world consisted of fucking-hell, fucking hell, fucking hell, which didn’t lend itself to detail, the detail really being those words themselves.’

‘Meanwhile, somewhere at the back of this was the milkman wedged between us’

‘You cannot go out with someone just because you feel sorry for them because they’ve had a long run of death in their family; and particularly you cannot do it if, from the outset, from the first moment ever of setting eyes on them, even before any interaction were to take place with them, some thing about them made you feel sick.’

‘It became clear as I gazed that there was no blue out there at all. For the first time I saw colours...blending and mixing, sliding and extendi NC, new colours arriving, all colours combining, colours going on forever, except one which was missing, which was blue.’

‘Alongside equal pay, the refuge movement is one to the greatest achievements of the Second Wave.’