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Figgy O'Connell

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See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond
Stephen Biesty, Martin Jenkins
The Terranauts: A Novel
T.C. Boyle
A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Sara Barnard
Gumnut Babies
May Gibbs
Progress: 42/264 pages
Highly Illogical Behaviour
John Corey Whaley
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Revenger
Alastair Reynolds
Progress: 75/425 pages
See What I Have Done
Sarah Schmidt
The Dog, Ray
Linda Coggin
Forgetting Foster
Dianne Touchell

Reading progress update: I've read 158 out of 239 pages.

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill - Megan Shepherd

I almost cannot tell you what happens next. 
It is too, too terrible.

The pencils. All of them. 479- TANGERINE ORANGE and 935- HELIOTROPE PURPLE and 781- SEA TURQUOISE. Broken. Shattered. They've been stomped on and splintered and stamped out. They candlelight flickers over them, illuminating the crime scene. And one of my drawings, crumpled. I pull it out with shaking fingers.

The horse's wings have been crossed out with black pencil, hard enough to tear the paper.
TIME TO GROW UP, someone has written. 
Someone.

Oh, I know who.

I want to race downstairs and throw myself on his bed and strangle his gangly neck while he sleeps. I want to rip his precious comic to shreds. I want to stomp on him, splinter him, break him into pieces.