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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
Progress: 82/249 pages
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 152 out of 355 pages.

Spontaneous - Aaron Starmer

Dancing for Billy Harmon consisted of twisting his lips and struggling to move them back and forth. It was sincere, schmaltzy, and sad. In other words, quintessential Billy Harmon. We loved the kid in the same way we loved inspirational quotes photoshopped onto pictures of sunsets over the beach. Not because they're profound. But because they assure us, temporarily at least, that life is simple, that an aw-shucks attitude paired with a splash of color can defeat the sting of tragedy, no matter how tragic that tragedy is.

Which is bullshit, right?