I can only recall the protagonist was a guy who had been tested on in some experiment, and as a result his skin was poisonous, and the only material that the poison didn't kill anyone through was leather. So he wore leather from head to toe all the time.
He and his powered friends are also in a band. I remember one part where they are working out lyrics and goes something like "if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen," and no one likes those lyrics.
Those are the only details I can remember, at this time in my life I was reading a lot of Cinda Williams Chima books, but I'm not sure if this was one of hers. Thank you.
I would have read this book around 2015/2016. I believe it was told from at least two POV, the girl and the boy. The girl was very manic-pixie-dreamgirl-esque. Here's what I remember:
- blue cover with feathers
- the girl always carried rocks and markers on her person so that she could write on them
- I remember the following quotes: "you can shine, baby stars, you can even fall if you want, but not tonight". And "I have saved up my daily allotment of exclamation marks for this moment" or something like that.
- the girl is assaulted at a party and then she fills her pockets with all the rocks and walks into a river or lake.
- the Virginia Woolf quote "fear no more" was featured a lot in the book and I believe it was written on one of the rocks.
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"From what I saw, Max is just happy to crash with Lewis and that is what every single flash-point was [this year], bar the brake testing which is something different entirely. But every incident where they are racing wheel-to-wheel, it is Max saying 'hey, if we crash, we crash' and Lewis saying 'I really do not want to crash, because it is going to be really bad for the championship'. And this goes back to day two in Imola and day four in Barcelona."
"It has been the case a lot this year, but now we are getting to the end of the season and Max has had the slower car for the last few, maybe it was the quicker car this weekend in the race it was hard to tell because of the tire differences, but he certainly had a better car in qualifying - anyway."
"Every one of these incidents, he is putting his car in a position that is saying 'either I am going to exit this corner ahead, or neither of us are going to exit the corner', which is an impossible way to go racing with someone. And of course if they crash, then Max has one hand on the trophy, he has 8 points [on Lewis] and does not even need to beat Lewis in Abu Dhabi - and if neither of them score points in Abu Dhabi, then Max is the champion so he will race like this again."
"And it is a really tricky thing trying to figure out how to work with this from here as a sport to try and just have a fair fight. Because it does not feel it is quite that at the moment, and where we are at now, for the second race of three where, basically, rather than being overtaken on track the stewards are having to just give a five-second penalty, in Brazil they did not but they should have. Max is not going to be overtaken on the track, he is going to cover the inside, not let anyone round the outside and if he goes off-track then 'to hell with it' but 'give me a penalty if you want, but I am not backing down'."
Link to podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b8b4m3 (starts at around 9:30)
Title is pretty self explanatory. But backstory... I wanted to fit everything into a carry on for a quick trip. I thought I was being a real smart guy by taking the time to vacuum seal all my clothing. "Why doesn't everybody do this?" I thought to myself. It took me hours to properly fold everything and seal it all and I spent like $20 on the bags. It never occurred to me that the airport agents would make me cut them all open. I thought they had xray scanners for that stuff. They made me cut open every single bag and then my clothing was 3 times the size of my carry on by the time they were done. I said to them "I guess you guys get this all the time" and one guy said "No not really". Everyone was looking at me like I was an idiot. I had to buy a bigger piece of luggage for a lot of money and then check my bag at the gate. So yeah, LPT, don't vacuum seal your clothing for carry on bags.
TL;DR: Vacuum sealed my clothes in a carry on and had to cut them all open at the airport and felt like an idiot
UPDATE: Wow! Thanks for all the likes and comments. The two most popular comments seem to be why didn't I use a ziplock bags. Well, I had no idea they existed first off, but even if I had, I wouldn't have had a way to re-vacuum the bags. I actually used a foodsaver to seal these not a vacuum cleaner. I thought, again, I was being really smart by using my kitchen foodsaver to seal everything. This is what cost me so much money because foodsaver bags are not cheap and I used two entire rolls. The other question people are asking is how I intended to get the stuff home. The short answer (which I posted in more depth below) is that I intended to buy a suitcase at my destination from a designer store that was not available in my city, and then I planned to check my bag on the way back. I realize how dumb this all is now, especially using foodsaver bags. Looking back on it I think the TSA agents thought I was a total idiot. Like I said, everyone was looking at me. I also had to carry half my clothing through the airport until I found luggage to buy (which I paid 2x the price for versus amazon). Lesson learned.
I carry pepper spray and a spotlight. Just a year shy of being able to legally carry a gun.
What do ya’ll use? Gun? Tazer? Pepper spray? Nothing at all?
Just curious, thanks everyone!
Brainstorming for a novel I’ll probably never write. Thoughts?
If so what light novel should i read from if i finished season 4
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