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Only 2 hours left. Audiobooks: always destroying my perception of time

So close...

Mum = my mom, even down to the exercise craze.

"If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness."

The last fifteen or so pages were very hard to read.

That introduction (by Vladimir Nabokov no less) was so needed. It did the brunt of the analysis, now I can just sit back and watch the story unfold.

I *almost* feel guilty for enjoying this.

Eadlyn is as snobby as America was annoying. She is highly entertaining however, so I'm enjoying this more than any of the other Selection novels I've read.

Says so much: " Like, if you're wearing a wet suit instead of a bikini, they say shit. If you wear a bikini instead of a wet suit, they say shit. They just do it to make up for the fact that they suck and I'm better than them."