Noticing Sentences

Illinois connection! Love it! Humor If those guys couldn't tell the difference between a friend and a girlfriend-- well, that made them too dense to be worth worrying about. p33 Description Kenny only had two volume levels: whine and yell. p37 (also, use of a colon) She was the kind of teacher who made you wish you could have her every year for the rest of your life. p77 Race Discussions p77-79 mom and Mrs. Roberts p84-86 meeting Mr. Dixon Most of the time, my mom was a very nice person. I hated thinking of her as someone who might be prejudiced against black people. p80 Mr. Dixon and food-- 163-166 I wondered if thinking about this race stuff too much made you see it in places where it didn't exist. But then I wondered the opposite: Maybe it existed all the time, and you only saw it if you were really thinking about it? p181 Maybe everything in life had its messy bits. Things other people didn't see. Or didn't know they didn't know. Or didn...

This is an adult book written by an author who also writes YA. The quotes may reflect this difference . So it's apparently Kristoff whose love of footnotes we also see in Illuninae Files. He has a ton of amazing footnotes in this series, too. some of my favorites- p19 "The Brightest Light" book burning story p119- the language of cats p125 books p186 sunglasses being blasphemous p188 sex joke tavern name p230 dueling story p246 freedom of speech p324 re: Pip and his blade All the snark "I called you nothing, sir. And I'll thank you not to call me 'girl' again, as if the word were kin to something you found on the bottom of your boot." p44 those eyes were as blind as a boy in love p126 "It may not be right," Aalea said. "It may not be just. But this is a word of senators and consuls and Luminatii-- of republics and cults and institutions built and maintained almost entirely by men. And in it, love is a weapon. Sex is...

World-building Because Shusterman is the master at world building! Now the venerable structure was a historical site. Tours were given seven days a week by docents with PhDs in the study of mortal humans. p19 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman Passion of performance was a thing of the mortal past, and true artistic style had gone the way of the dodo. Of course, the dodo was back-- the Thunderhead had seen to that. A thriving colony was now happily not flying on the island of Mauritius. p32 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman His parents were "serial parents." They loved the idea of having families, but loathed raising them. Greyson and his sisters were his father's fifth family, and his mother's third. They had tired of this new batch of offspring quickly, and when they began to shirk their parental responsibilities, the Thunderhead took up the slack. p66 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman "I'm going to learn how to drive, no matter how may times it kills me....