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Reading for the 3rd time
read in July 2020
Beth said:
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Second reading in audiobook: my general impressions of this book haven't changed much, or at all. It's wobbly in places. We're called on to try to sort out a mystery without having enough connection with the many supporting characters to care very mu
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"Reading a book--even one I really enjoyed--three times in six years is too much.* I might take another crack at it when Alecto is announced, depending on how far in the future that ends up being.
* This also happened with Hogfather, which was going to be an annual read until I started hating the idea of reading it yet again. No big surprise, then." — Aug 13, 2025 03:29PM
"Reading a book--even one I really enjoyed--three times in six years is too much.* I might take another crack at it when Alecto is announced, depending on how far in the future that ends up being.
* This also happened with Hogfather, which was going to be an annual read until I started hating the idea of reading it yet again. No big surprise, then." — Aug 13, 2025 03:29PM
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"Moving toward something at last, probably. Should have happened awhile ago." — Mar 22, 2026 08:06PM
"Moving toward something at last, probably. Should have happened awhile ago." — Mar 22, 2026 08:06PM
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Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman’s question that is.
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“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”
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“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
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to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
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“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
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“But my experiences slowly flattened and blended together until it became obvious that there's a huge difference between not giving a fuck and not being able to give a fuck. Cognitively, you might know that different things are happening to you, but they don't feel different.”
― Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
― Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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