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"need to stop telling myself "oh maybe this YA will be different". if this had been out while I was in high school I would've been all over it. i'm having fun wit this one ig but genuinely i need something with SUBTEXT." — Aug 31, 2026 08:13PM
"need to stop telling myself "oh maybe this YA will be different". if this had been out while I was in high school I would've been all over it. i'm having fun wit this one ig but genuinely i need something with SUBTEXT." — Aug 31, 2026 08:13PM
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read in May 2024
“In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?”
― Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
― Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow— WHATS WITH THE SKULLS? and received only a terse— Ambiance.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“In a way, the user of the non-place is always required to prove his innocence. Checks on the contract and the user's identity, a priory or a posteriori, stamp the space of contemporary consumption with the sign of non-place: it can be entered only by the innocent.”
― Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
― Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
“Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona, said Paul. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth.
Absent such curiosity, we are no different from the provincial farmer who expresses no need to venture beyond the county line, because his forty acres meet all his needs. Yet if all our predecessors had felt that way, the farmer would instead be a cave dweller, chasing down his dinner with a stick and a rock.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Absent such curiosity, we are no different from the provincial farmer who expresses no need to venture beyond the county line, because his forty acres meet all his needs. Yet if all our predecessors had felt that way, the farmer would instead be a cave dweller, chasing down his dinner with a stick and a rock.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Rene’s 2025 Year in Books
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