Ahhhhh excellent, yes!! I was VERY reminded of you, your school, our (past) school. Though I did not realize copiers were so much of a thing!
I really loved everything up to the point where Saffy makes the horrible mistake not to call Ramamurthy or Laura and ask for help
Ohhhh yes definitely me too. I have the opposite coping mechanism: I actually flipped through the pages up until where the terms go by because it was so clear that it was going to be terrible and I just wanted to get through it. I did later have to go back and reread it so I could figure out exactly what happened, but from the safe distance of having finished the book so that I knew everything turned out OK. :) Yes, it's an Act 3 kind of thing, isn't it! (I haven't read any books on general novel plotting, but I could imagine that something like this shows up.)
I assumed that Saffy is some her (some of the ways she talks about teaching sound like they really came from the inside of her head) and some others. Heeeee I also didn't even think of how this must read to Tesh's department head (!)
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I really loved everything up to the point where Saffy makes the horrible mistake not to call Ramamurthy or Laura and ask for help
Ohhhh yes definitely me too. I have the opposite coping mechanism: I actually flipped through the pages up until where the terms go by because it was so clear that it was going to be terrible and I just wanted to get through it. I did later have to go back and reread it so I could figure out exactly what happened, but from the safe distance of having finished the book so that I knew everything turned out OK. :) Yes, it's an Act 3 kind of thing, isn't it! (I haven't read any books on general novel plotting, but I could imagine that something like this shows up.)
I assumed that Saffy is some her (some of the ways she talks about teaching sound like they really came from the inside of her head) and some others. Heeeee I also didn't even think of how this must read to Tesh's department head (!)