Superb blurb: Girls are born with all of the eggs they will ever make. Tiny future fighters are nested inside the infant bodies of baby girls. Men are Superb blurb: Girls are born with all of the eggs they will ever make. Tiny future fighters are nested inside the infant bodies of baby girls. Men are dead ends, but girls are infinite backwards and forwards....more
I wanted to like this (esp having my own complaints about a certain Quaker HS) but the litany of influential job titles and disrespectful kids and oneI wanted to like this (esp having my own complaints about a certain Quaker HS) but the litany of influential job titles and disrespectful kids and one dimensional parents really grated on me. I already know how stupid and aggravating DCUM can get, don't need a fleshed out version. DNF 50%....more
Superb blurb: I thought I was doing something good. Something noble鈥攖o bring Athena鈥檚 work into the world the way it deservHow the sausage gets stolen.
Superb blurb: I thought I was doing something good. Something noble鈥攖o bring Athena鈥檚 work into the world the way it deserved. But how could I ever have imagined this wouldn鈥檛 all come back to bite me in the ass? I鈥檝e been so stable up until now....more
I felt a mix of astonishment, betrayal, and anger. The astonishment was for me鈥攆or my own ignorance, for my oPersonal, powerful, painful.
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I felt a mix of astonishment, betrayal, and anger. The astonishment was for me鈥攆or my own ignorance, for my own incuriosity, for the limits of my sense of reparations. The betrayal was for my colleagues in journalism鈥攂etrayal for the way they reported, for the way they鈥檇 laundered open discrimination, for the voices they鈥檇 erased. And the anger was for my own past鈥攆or Black Bottom, for Rosewood, for Tulsa鈥攚hich I could not help but feel being evoked here....more
鈥淐ryptic and low-key threatening鈥� sums up The Marvelous - the puzzle pieces of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Westing Game are in this mix 鈥淐ryptic and low-key threatening鈥� sums up The Marvelous - the puzzle pieces of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Westing Game are in this mix of mystery, social media, and mansion-wide games which make little sense even after the big reveal. I appreciate the representations but had a hard time distinguishing the characters and wasn鈥檛 a fan of the confusing game itself.
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鈥淐ryptic and low-key threatening鈥� sums up The Marvelous - the puzzle pieces of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Westing Game are in this mix of mystery, social media, and mansion-wide games which make little sense even after the big reveal. I appreciate the representations but had a hard time distinguishing the characters and wasn鈥檛 a fan of the confusing game itself....more
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