Happy Friday, fellow fiction fans! (I love alliteration).

Drop the first line or two of the book you're currently reading, and let fellow Boundlings try to guess the title and author. If no one gets it by the end of the day, come back and reveal the answer!

A few friendly guidelines: • Keep it to the first line or two only (no spoilers!) • Don’t include the title or author right away • Feel free to add a hint later if people get stuck

“Silencing through fear. In another context, we might call this terrorism. And, if we did that, if we used that accurate language and applied the same political and societal response that we should to any form of terrorism, perhaps we would see more appropriate and urgent action being taken as this technology proliferates.”

there are many egregious forms of mass oppression and political violence, in regard to which which, we might ask: ‘why is this not labelled as terrorism?’ the answer is simple, and has always been simple. the idea of ‘terrorism’ has never, ever been about what you do, and has always, always been about who you are. it is not a coincidence that the term ‘terrorism’ was popularised during the troubles, and israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation of palestine. it is not a coincidence that we would likely hear the word terrorism and think first of 9/11, rather than, say, the white supremacists who make up the largest domestic terrorist threat within the united states by a massive statistical margin. it is high time that we let these critical discussions around the deployment of the word ‘terrorism’ itself take centre stage.