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Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

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The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)

by Robert Jordan

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Nancy said: " Best book in the series so far but still probably only a high 3*. Yes, I'm coming to realize that my ratings are sometimes wildly inconsistent with each other but they are what they are. I think it could be a 4* if I hadn't read the first two books b Best book in the series so far but still probably only a high 3*. Yes, I'm coming to realize that my ratings are sometimes wildly inconsistent with each other but they are what they are. I think it could be a 4* if I hadn't read the first two books before it. I'm also bumping The Great Hunt down to 2* so that at least something is different.

Pro: Rand was barely a POV in this book. I am blessed.

Con: Perrin seems to have taken his place, very unfortunately, as the whiny man of the group dragging his feet after Moiraine. This felt like a leap backwards from his characterization in the past two books, where he was shown to be perhaps reluctant and ponderous but willing to embrace his powers to do what was needed without much or any prompting at all. Such a shame, especially since he was one of my favourite characters. He has so little agency in this book.

Pro: Mat actually become a character instead of (literally) cursed to just be an asshole. Also although he angsts about his newfound powers for a chapter or two, he quickly throws aside his qualms and abuses his powers to get rich. I respect that. Mat also had a lot of agency in this book.

Also Pro: I love the three girls, I love giving them their own distinct and meaningful plot, I love giving them agency and initiative. Also I love how often they punch people. They are shining beacons in a miserable fantasy world.

Con: Robert Jordan actually writes women half-decently, but he writes all of his men as idiotic, blundering buffoons who are all misogynistic to the core. Rand, Perrin, and Mat all included! The world he has created is so deeply gendered it's sometimes just infuriating to read about. Can't Robert Jordan just like .. write his own gender better.

Pros: I thought the structure of this book was pretty cool. Multiple POVs are converging into one point, although they are all arriving there for distinct reasons. It was also a lot more cohesive than the first two books, where the plot took a hard turn like 75% of the way through because of ~the Pattern.

Con: No more winking from Robert Jordan about the Pattern as he jerked the plot steering wheel in a completely different direction, which is a shame because I thought it was hilarious.

Pro (?): 51 chapters into the book and I was genuinely tearing through it because I had no clue how all these different plot points could possibly be resolved within five chapters. I predicted the ending pretty well but was baffled that he pulled it all off. I would never encourage Robert Jordan to write more but I think he could've easily made the climax of this book a full ten chapters longer. I honestly still haven't decided if this was good as is or not.

I'm pretty sure I will continue with The Wheel of Time, but I'm taking a break for September at least. I looked up what % of POVs is with Rand in future books and they look pretty low for the next couple. I also figure that reasonably I must be closer to all of the men growing as characters, right?! ...more "

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Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

by Alexis Hall (Goodreads Author)

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“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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