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Very weird with delightful characters. Plot is pretty difficult to follow. Love the movie and this didn't disappoint but it is different in a fun way (they go to Wales!!) 

I hateeeeee this man. Hate him. Sejanus, Lucy gray and reaper slayed tho. 

Love how it shows the community and coming together behind a revolution - katniss was not the first to revolt, neither was Haymitch. The movement just needed it's time. 

Willllldddd.  Love these weird little guys

I enjoyed reading it a lot but I found the characters and dialogue very flat and the stories very basic. I feel like much cooler stories could be created with the same concept. I'd recommend the film The Concierge, which is extremely similar but more fun. 

Really great adaptation, with characters that make you want to scream about the unfairness of it all

Aaaaaaaa one of the most beautiful things I've ever read both in style and writing

Imperfect but so so rich.  Feminist and sexist at once. 

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. 

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

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

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???