Status Updates From The Invisible Life of Ivan ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt_J... The Agapkin piece at the link which I had to perform is the best I can think of that conclusive wrap up of this romance. (That link switches to singing at the 2:48 mark - and you can follow along what it means as well!) I had to look up a lot of the oboe's alternate trill fingerings for that music... how useful.

What would it be like to write your own history...

I have to have a pretty good idea of where the plot's going to read comfortably on the bus. ...

I think the general populace may be surprised how much of the world is "non cripple friendly" ...

This is Бедная Настя, Poor (as in Impecunious) Nastya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83iUh...

OMFG NU POGODI <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3XA...

Oh my. This is extraordinary.

Is she saying that most of the world's evil is done by megalomaniacs? "By those addicted to their own thoughts..."

Wonder what percent of the day I have a smile on my face... it seems to be a bit less than it had been in the past, but a bit more than many of my peers.

The "mother" figure that Ivan invented matches my actual mother strangely closely!

Honestly, I have variable rates of reliability, the full scale, though I generally try to be honest, truthful and dependable.

No clue if I am actually on page 50 as this is an audio. Just a word of caution. Do not play this audio while you are having lunch. There is a scatological stuff in the beginning of this book and I am not sure if I will finish it. Yuk.

Seeing a character with the name Kristina calls to mind that Kristina Orbakaite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEo-6... music starts at :46 - it's Rpop) toured Philly from Moscow in 2013, but I skipped the occasion due to the beginnings of my problems with overwhelm.

Ivan has to hide away too? What's his patronymic again?

This really IS essentially Раковый Корпус (Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward) rewritten from a Belarussian boy's perspective!

Who am I kidding. Most likely going to be a DNF

"I'm only a few chapters away from a Ph.D., Ivan," [Nurse Natalya] said, "But it turns out that universities are even lonelier than hospitals."
I wonder if this is so.

Part1 chapter vi

I don't remember reading this, though I have done so much research into Pripyat and radiation's effect on the brain, having written a story in the semi-recent past, which I don't remember ending as I really wanted.

Excellent so far...dark humor, heart-wrenching.

This is going to make me ugly cry. I feel it coming! So many feels.

Interesting enough and yet...it's just not pulling me in all the way.

Woah this book was crazy expensive with a giant font too.

Picked up this book at the library after the librarian said that it was in the same vein as one of my other favorites, The One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest. It looks good! Can't wait to start it today.

"But then my mother would show up for a moment to tell me stories of pregnant women lifting cars up off their trapped children, which inspired me to summon the pissed-off pregnant mother inside of me, who I truly believe lives in all of us."

"Everyone deserves a purpose."

Great beginning, sounds so strangely real.

This is a really fantastic YA novel so far thanks to the teenage Ivan's incredible voice and character.

This book is going to be amazing. I can tell.

So far, so good. It kinda jump all over place, but not too much to confuse.