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Post-Thanksgiving #bookandbreakfast: pumpkin pie and tea. Finishing up the #goneawaybuddyread today. My cousin and I discussed the book. It starts in medias res, then backtracks to explain the story so far. She thought the backtracking took too long to get to the present, and the ideas didn't quite coalesce into a satisfying whole. But she did like the reference to Crazy Joe Spork 😉

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Update on my #goneawaybuddyread: my cousin has finished the book, and I think I am liking it more than she did 😶 Possibly because there aren't nearly as many ninjas after the first three chapters, and it gets into military ops. I'm finding it's a book I need to sit with for extended periods, because there is so much going on. Harkaway has no shortage of ideas!

Finished chapters 3 and 4 of my #goneawaybuddyread on the plane home from London. Chapter 3 sees our narrator in university and becoming your typical rebellious youth joining student movements.

My Chapter 4 quote will come later, and some thoughts on the first four chapters as a whole in a spoiler-tagged post.

Of COURSE I am two chapters behind on my own #goneawaybuddyread 😁 Too much wandering around Oxford and taking pictures. Home tomorrow, though; the plane ride will provide some good reading time.

In this chapter, we're introduced to the ninjas via the narrator's flashback through his childhood and teenage years. Loved the dynamics of the Lubitsch family. Also interesting to see the narrator's perspective of his head teacher shift from childhood to adulthood.
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Finished Ch 1 of my #goneawaybuddyread. I like how Harkaway provides enough explanation to bring us up to speed (the Jorgmund Pipe) and hints at unusual things to hopefully be explained later (the Found Thousand). Some great lines about bureaucracy and the compartmentalizing required to be a good corporate employee. This may be a more appropriate read than I had intended.

Starting my #goneawaybuddyread on this #signedsunday. (I found this paperback edition in the Hay Cinema Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, and my jaw literally dropped when I saw the signature.)

My cousin and I both bought the pink-and-green fuzzy-covered edition of The Gone-Away World shown here. We're going to do a buddy read over the next few weeks, with the aim being to finish by Canadian Thanksgiving. If you'd like to join us, here's our rough schedule. Tag me and/or use the hashtag #goneawaybuddyread in any posts.