Livvie Boylan’s Reviews > Atonement > Status Update

Lots of drama happening over the C word right now guys 😳 Grant High school read this book for English at some point and one of my friends messaged me with The Quote and that it was read out loud in class with the principal as the teacher hahahahahah

[She] made [herself] think about time, about [her] great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune. [She] had never felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

“A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit”. Goes on to liken writing and reading to miniaturisation: i agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY. Reading and writing is consuming/creating worlds miniature in their size, verbally, but the collectively conscious impact can be huge