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Autumn by Ali Smith
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bookshelves: 21st-century, british

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Reading Progress

September 4, 2021 – Started Reading
September 4, 2021 – Shelved
September 4, 2021 –
page 45
17.05% "Once it would have been a year’s worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff."
September 5, 2021 –
page 94
35.61% "If you have no choice but to go underground, go in the form of something useful. If you have to be cut down, good to spend the afterlife as messenger between people across landscapes. Pines are tall. It’s a lot better than being confined in a dwarf conifer."
September 5, 2021 –
page 103
39.02% "And then what happened next, well, it happened next, and history, that other word for irony, went its own foul witty"
September 5, 2021 –
page 169
64.02% "We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters."
September 6, 2021 –
page 213
80.68% "It’s all right to forget, you know, he said. It’s good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we’d never sleep ever again."
September 6, 2021 –
page 230
87.12% "The whole thing was a bit like being made to watch something as innocent as Alfie through a gimp mask and a lot of painful S&M gear you’d never agreed to wear in the first place."
September 6, 2021 – Finished Reading

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