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I am now in the middle of chapter 11 ("Signing") and still really enjoying it! I like the evolution and transformation of Donna's character growing up from the immature high schooler to a young adult.  I like the way you describe her internal world; it's so obvious that things are changing for her and new ideas beginning to take shape, but even she is a little unsure of exactly what form her new views, new life etc will take, so while the change itself is imminent and clear, it's also a bit nebulous and unclear, and you do a good job of conveying her own confusion with what direction she sees her life going.  Especially the way she questions the lifestyle she has adopted, the agenda of the "revolutionaries," reflects on the morbidity of the music icons succumbing to their self-inflicted doom - it's like she wants to be part of the change and the revolution, but she herself is a bit skeptical of it, a bit wary of whether that is really what is taki