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Love how weird this is. My favourite parts were hearing people's odd theories about how the world works. Found it really tricky to read tho. 

Yes yes yes!!! excellent wisdom from women and faggots!!!!

Favourite were the Resident and the Husband Stitch! All stories were great though, we covered Real Women Have Bodies in my short story group <3

Love how much this focuses on the ‘childish' vs ‘mature' crowds at that age.  I definitely struggled a lot with that myself at that age

Love how earnest and sympathetic this book is, I can see why it's a classic

I knew that he was gonna have a bad time being a cockroach but I was not prepared for the fact that people would tell him he still needed to go to work as a cockroach.  True hell.

My heart breaks thinking about this world.  I love Nausicaa and Teto so much

Man I'm definitely too silly a reader to fully understand this book properly but when it hit it was really good. Super difficult to get through though. 

Oh my goddd I want to live there

Really wanted to like this a lot more but some of the characters (especially Padmini) felt shallow.  Would hugely recommend to anyone who likes Neil Gaiman books like Neverwhere and American Gods because it's of the same ilk (although I think I prefer Jemison's punchy way of writing action). It did hit on a couple pet  peeves for me though (eg. Bel talks in a very stereotypical English way not really representative of how people in our area speak).

Jo is truly so relatable but I wish that growing up didn't mean conforming so much to the very specific expectations put on women in this era

Would be sooo improved if it had pictures of some of the weird shit she describes. Read this with a v mucus-y cold for the 4D experience. 

Really love the interplay between her own experiences and her research into polyamory at large. Also love how she's reflective of the fact that her experiences are not universal, she's just adding to the voices in this world telling their experiences of polyamory. 

Diamond ??????????????????

Love the emphasis on humans having intrinsic value unrelated to what they do. 

Read the whole thing just waiting for Odysseus and Penelope to reunite <3 love their love. 

Odysseus is such a dramatic bitch there's so many times he lies when it doesn't even benefit him. 

This was one of the wildest books I've read in a while. I'm so used to reading dystopian teen fiction that it totally threw me when this was...utopian??? 

This book had no business being as difficult to read as it was.  I do continue to love the world-building, and Lazuli, Beckett and Myles are great additions to the fowl canon.

I'm really glad this kinda lesbian fiction (written by and for lesbians!!) exists. Also one of the only books I've read with a non binary character (and they're a great character so that's a bonus!) 

This was dark and mysterious, not like anything I've read before. 

The dialogue style didn't really work with me? 

Very bold (and very fun) that all the white characters in this entire book are 100% The Worst

All of the stories moved me in some way, but the rat catcher one really disturbed me. 

Bro I'm so upset that this website doesn't have the beautiful book cover that my copy has. 

I would really love to be patroclus's buddy

every woman in this book is treated appallingly and it does grate on me

beautiful, weird and very touching.