I can see Daniel having a very limited understanding of freedom though. He's still so focused on physical freedom I'm sure he doesn't know what emotional freedom even looks like.

Okay, I think you're right there. I think her voice is so great it's prone to sounding like she's speechifying so I wasn't sure!

Oh yeah, THAT was stupid. But aside from that, she was right.

Ha! Good point.

I totally know people who talk like her.

I did too. I think my time in AA has made me softer about spirituality: I see how much it helps some people and was so happy for her.

Aww, thank you! You also inspired me to go check what re-reads I did aside from The Handmaid's Tale for the Avocado Book Club. I also re-read Slaughterhouse Five, The Martian Chronicles, the entire His Dark Materials series, and Jacob Have I Loved.

Yup! To be fair, probably about 20 of those were YA books and I counted a handful of trade paperbacks.

Agreed. And now I gotta do a reread of this.

Awww I love Wizard and Glass.

I already read The Girl With All the Gifts and a bunch of random YA, mostly mediocre except The Female of the Species, which I fucking adored. I also read and liked Into the Darkest Corner and All the Birds in the Sky.

Read about what actually happens with conversion therapy. It's torture.

He believed that the cure for that "disorder" was TORTURE. That is evil. I don't care what his intentions were. And in this day in age, believing that homosexuality is not normal or a mental disorder DOES make you a bad person.

The man is a bigot who believes in torturing children because of their sexuality. And that's just ONE example of how he's a horrible person.

No.

I definitely will! It's not until February but I expect that my Sobriety Corner that week will just be about Hamilton. And possibly in all caps.

I like you, Mr. Greene, and theoretically I wouldn't have a problem with reminding people that a commenter said something bad if that bad thing actually did anyone any harm. But Scritch believing that Amanda Knox killed someone doesn't harm anybody (though it's an incorrect and foolish opinion to hold), so this just…

I will check it out!

Oh I didn't mean because the countdown would warn the aliens, I just mean because it seems utterly unnecessary. But I can see it if that's how the hardware is set up.

Oh I know! Wouldn't really be funny anyway because I don't think Andy would have engaged in that much cruelty for a joke.