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5 pages about an old lady playing with her bugs, not sure how much I liked this part. Let's go back to the gay plot thanks

"Elsie fully expected
that he (she) would outgrow the foolishness soon enough. But the
child walked and ran and dressed and talked and tumbled and all
but relieved himself so much like an authentic boy that Elsie soon
apparently forgot she had ever given birth to a girl. And the father,
in his few waking episodes, seemed not to remember that he had
once fathered one." (110)

Very woke Caribbean book!

Laughing at the darkest parts of my insanity

"His hand was tender yet his grip so secure and present I was compelled to look directly into his eyes. I can think of no other wat to express myself-even superlatives would be useless: simply stated, he was breathtakingly beautiful." (101)

Mootoo wrote this and then stated that the story would be less about the narrator :/

"Finally there are only other's recollections of your behaviour. Your bizarre phonetic, aimless behaviour.
For mania has at least one grace, in partially obliterating memories"

My mind used to be my best friend, until it became a space of true agony and insanity

"All these signs. They were preparing me as if I were to take an important test, like I was back in high school. Only, high school was now my whole life and the test was a road to depression. " (6)

Jordi van der Plank's debut is starting off well

Back at listening this again

This went from victorian lesbians to something dark and terrible real quick..

Still enjoying reading about crickets in the night and Caribbean dialecs

Big ears

Piper truly is the mom friend, love her

Learned a lot about strawberries?

Robbie Daymond's Shakespearian accent is hilarious! Don't know what his accent for Aloe Vera is supposed to be 🤔

Apart from the important messages, the structure is very good. Every chapter builds it up individually and I've gone from a "yeah I know this already" to finding little things that I've seen or heard and ignored or downplayed..
It's also feeling like an uphill battle and hope to find some (more) tools to be a good alley from this book

Constantly disgusted by the examples, hard to listen to but very important.

Wow this is pretty! Definitely can relate to these characters.

Thought I was just picking up on some queer subtext, but it's honest representation! Nice! Excited to read more about this and have people speak in Caribbean dialect

"He gone take the child in he own house?" This is helping my homesickness

Reading this specific series as books, not audiobooks so going slower... but also don't have the next copy... (hint hint, late holidays present? Jk... unless?)

"Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it" (15)

"Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.
A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!"

Demetet confirmed communist xD

Reading this series to take my mind off the state of the world. I do not appreciate the yosoi; spirits of disease and pandemics