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Oh damn it all, she did NOT just do the "moody teen cuts her hair off in a fit of angst" thing. I hate this book.

Gah, stupid and irrational teacher alert! Why?! Must?! Parents?! And?! Teachers?! In?! YA?! Always?! Be?! Stupid?!?!?!

Ahhhh, we finally meet the titular character. On page ninety. Freakin. Five.

Did she just introduce a bisexual and an asexual character in the same sentence? Nicely done. Nicely done.

Why does she keep calling it bobbed wire?! Why?! It's barbed! As in "has barbs"! And it's the author saying it, not the character. Argh.

"That one network" Throwing some shade, Thomas. Pretty sly....almost like a Fox...?

I don't care if you don't want to read this, even if you really should. But do yourself a favor and read chapter 10, her convo with her dad. It's the core of the issue at hand and it's deep.

This is the book all white people need to read right now. The empathy you feel for Starr and Khalil makes you break inside.

"Does he realize if he does become a hashtag, some people will only see him as a drug dealer?" Wow. That's powerful. And painful. And true.

We've been reading Candi the Stripper AI door with a crotchety southern prospector and it is hilarious to us. As was "Your cat eats with a fork?!"

Random sci fi Men In Black jump cuts are realllly confusing. They take me out of the story.

This...book...is...so...freakin...slow...

Realizing with this book how much i hate the word "smooch." That's a gross sounding word.

46% of financial planners don't have retirement plans. And 30% of Americans have so little retirement they'll need to work til 80, 2 yrs past life expectancy. Wow.

"Nearly 1/4 of 50-64 year olds haven't begun saving for retirement." What?! Seriously?! I mean, I get some ppl are in jobs they have always scraped by in and can't save, but 1/4 of that age group? Some of that is just foolish spending.

"The years had slid 60 centimeters into Far's bones." That's a really nice turn of phrase. I like that.

"2020 was no golden age either: slavery's chains exchanged for jumpsuits, keep your hands where I can see them a guarantee for nothing." Hard hitting truths in a time travel book with a PoC as a main character.

This is awesome so far! I love the crew.

Wow...so her baby just kinda River Song-ed. Born during time travel.

Ok, Pasus needs to die in just the worst way possible. Like...the bloodiest and most painful. 10,000 paper cuts? Evisceration? Forced to watch only the Star Wars prequels?

"There is no limit to the effort people will make just to avoid thinking."

"War is never about killing the enemy. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down." Wow, that's a great quote.

what the shit?! what. the. shit?! sorry for swearing but holy crap!

Disregard first comment. Change of tense seems to be intended.

Chapter two is randomly in 3rd person. That throws you for a loop when you were just in the MC's mind.

Ahh, so the Stanford Prison Experiment then...

For anyone else who is confused, the Crovan motto is a common phrase on clocks and the "horae" are implied. That's why "hours" is part of the translation but not the phrase. I used my rudimentary Latin to look into it for us. ;)

Want more info? Read "In Our Hearts We Were Giants."

Well, sh*t. That got dark.

Weird that all three books I'm reading right now involve magical haves/have-nots. This, "Freakling", and "This Book Is Full of Spiders."