SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP
i love this book so much. this is how i envision my future—in the middle of nowhere with no one but animals as my companions and being self sufficient. the narrator's life is hard but she was content and at peace. yes, it was lonely especially when dealing with death but that's life, that's nature. i found this book really beautiful that i can't even articulate my thoughts right now.
and of course, a man ruins EVERYTHING
author doesn't know anything about autism. christopher is not only autistic, he's a sociopath. it's not even a proper murder mystery. 2nd half is tedious. aside from a few interesting and heartwarming moments, i was hoping the christopher dies in the end.
can't believe this is being compared to catcher in the rye.
“If we'd both gone straight into college, our lives would've been all warm and fuzzy, but I blew the entrance exam big time, and here we are. I'm not sure why, exactly, but things kept on getting worse. I'm not blaming anyone for that—it's all my fault.”
I listened to him in silence.
“So I kinda split myself in two,” Kitaru said. He pulled his hands apart.
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kitaru and tanimura are like two sides of the same coin or just plain twins. they lived lives opposite of each other and saw what they're lives could've been in if they switched.