SDAntoNia’s Reviews > The Poppy War > Status Update

ch. 23: good set of impossible questions... become monsters to prevent a genocide, or be decimated?

The hatred is entirely understandable.

ch 18: deep burning anger and resentment from early abuse...

No child should have to endure that.

chapter 14, back to the original English now that the library has let me have it again, finally.

of 484, Fr. ePub:

Ouch, Qara !

Interesting. So she and Altan are ... Altan being a Turkish name, like Cengis, going back to the link with the Mongols, hmmm...

But in fact she is still a child: 13+2=15... or at most 16, now. Only just finishing their second year,
sat for exams after studying for a year at 13, so 14+2 ok, she is 16 1/2, or 17 at most, but still a kid, really.

same wall I hit with meditation, difficult for the young to understand importance of self-discipline, meditation, until they learn to do that mind-emptying, which can take years. Tai Chi really helped for me, but that may have ... Storing up anger. take decades. And she's foolish to underestimate the dangers of these drugs, as he points out. Esp. so angry, they can destroy a mind. I saw it w/my dad. 4 stdnts!

"...au potentiel gâché..."

there's a reason the word for 'drugs' in Fr is 'stupéfiants' and it is correct, Professor Druggie, and unlike your student, I've also seen the effects of drug addiction, via my dad, and so, I very much doubt that I will change my mind after hearing what you have to say. Let's see if she does...

p. 182/484, ver. fr: assignments in unknown 'space' gave her the mental equiv. of carrying a pig up the mountain: nice! And if the enemy has an "ironic" doctrine of separation of church and state, then the enemy is...

Interesting.