"Octopuses are remarkably bright creatures, it says."

Hey!! points, snaps, and whistles!!

i’m so immature bruh “Three hundred and one of you have survived the parapet to become cadets today.. Sixty-seven did not”

Would you hate me if I said I’m way more interested in Margaret’s story than Hayden and Alice’s? 🫣

There are four short stories within this book. How would you rank all of them to you. Me personally:

1. Story #2
2. Story #1
3. Story #4
4. Story #3

(Not spoiling them here)

when i was in elementary school we did a thing called battle of the books, where we’d split up into teams, read a bunch of books, then “battle” other teams to answer trivia questions! it was a really fun way to test and grow our reading comprehension skills and sometimes i miss it (tbh i mostly miss the pizza party you’d get for winning lmao)

i have such a vivid memory of sitting on stage with my team and being asked a question about the appearance of a fruit/vegetable from a sci-fi book. no one knew the answer, including the other team. so no one got the point, but i still remember the description of being like a tomato but in the shape of a carrot 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

anyone else grow up doing something similar? any fun memories or books you want to reread?

I was wandering if anyone dreams about the books they are currently reading? The last time it happened to me was when I was a kid and I would love to experience that again but it just never happens…