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I'm really enjoying the vibe of this so far, although the present tense third person threw me off a bit.

Ok I understand now....and I still love it. Layer by layer the mystery is unraveling👀

Weird but in a good way. Like a peacock.

everytime i come back to read more pages, it feels like i'm transported to another parallel world with strange characters and an almost sentient house with strange mismatched art within its walls

"I want to go home," Jane says. "Please, god, let me go home." It's funny to find herself speaking words that sound like prayer. She's never been religious, she doesn't know what she believes, and she doesn't really know what she means by home, either. She does, however, give herself a second to mourn the brown-rose-copper umbrella with the brass handle. Her heroic-journey umbrella.

"Jane suddenly feels like a character in a novel by Edith Wharton or the Brontës. I'm a young woman of reduced circumstances, with no family and no prospects, invited by a wealthy family to their glamorous estate. Could this be my heroic journey?" -- fave!

"I'm dying to talk to Mr. Vanders," says Phoebe. "He could help." "I talked to him today," Jane says, remembering. "He says that the more we embrace our lack of cohesion, the better off we are." "That sounds like Mr. Vanders," says Phoebe wistfully. "But this is different, isn't it?" Jane says. "This weird feeling? Don't you feel like it's coming from outside us? Like, from the walls and the ceiling?"

"I saw the Okadas sneaking around last night," she blurts out. "With Patrick." Lucy's eyes narrow on her. "What do you mean? Where?" "In the servants' quarters," says Jane. "Just after four in the morning." "I think that's when Philip was called away," says Lucy. "Patrick was probably just helping him organize a boat." Jane almost says something, then stops.

I don't know if this is a trend in books or if I've been reading more of these in the last couple of years but this is one more book focusing on alternate-choice parallel universes. I'm getting 4321 and (the start of) The First 15 Lives of Harry August vibes.

Finally,there was a photograph of Aunt Magnolia herself, standing, in scuba gear, on a New Zealand seafloor, touching the nose of an enormous southern right whale who peered at her with quiet dignity. Aunt Magnolia had been so encouraged by her visit to New Zealand, where the sea life is fiercely protected by law. "It gives me hope for the world," she'd said. She'd been that way. Hopeful.

Woah. This is a whirlwind. I love love love the writing and the quirky characters. Also, what in the world is going on? I almost don’t even want to find out because I’m enjoying the ride so much.

This is takingggg toooo longgggggg

I think I finally understand what’s happening in here

JESUS

I was asked to explain this book while in the Grace section, and now I'm in the Kiran section and I still don't know.

LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND AT MY LIBRARY!!!

"She aims for a blasé tone when she tells them about Ravi not having been in his bedroom too."

Blasé: indifferent to something because one has already experienced it before (V)

holy jeebus. does that mean every time she was saying that it rained frogs it was really raining frogs not an euphemism

our reality is not the reality. LD387. my head hurts

holy...

well that escalated to creepier quickly

well that got creepy

Kiran doesn't seem attracted to Colin, and she's very annoyed with him when he talks to her. I wonder why she's still with him? (A)

I kind of think I hate this book and am wondering why I keep reading it!

Chaotic and impossible!!! Love this book a lottt!!!

So far so good, i think. It sounds really cool! I'm exited!

feels weird that we could be at a point where we need to explain that a harry potter reference is referencing harry potter

There are so many things going through Jane's head. It's like the book is flooded with her thoughts. I think the author did this so the reader could feel as overwhelmed as Jane (W).

The mystery of charlotte & magnolia has caught my interest.

I don't even know why but I'm super into this book already!

plus...gotta love me some Doctor Who references