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Good but she’s losing the plot at the moment. It’s such a long book that the author has so much freedom so she’s now talking from Rosario’s perspective and getting carried away with it in my opinion. Maybe Rosario’s contemptible personality traits and hedonism are characteristic of her social class, but it reads like a YA novel with her fantastic lifestyle, free love, and attitude abt being rich but cursed

Really great thoughts and I like how they are juxtaposed with a story and rhymes. Very entertaining reading experience even tho you need Claude the entire time. Great thoughts just not great delivery

Dream states and what happens in the darkness. Liminal space between life and death. Hypnotic suggestions and unnerving hallucinations that might not be hallucinations? Sounds like a typical Monday morning for me.

This series is nice because it’s just action and villains. It’s like exciting but a book. So not that exciting but the criminal world is interesting enough

These guys are great. It feels like meditation to read something so pretty and prim.

“Why all this toil and trouble?
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books,
Or surely you’ll grow double.”

It’s like listening to music that helps you become a better person

I think this is just fan fiction smut. Not impressed, likely dnf. I always dnf long fantasy but I want to finish one atleast because people say they get really good the deeper you go

Even though I have not been able to absorb nearly any of these facts and figures about random important Europeans, it’s interesting and the art commentary is satisfying

Pretty mysogynistic but honestly not too bad so far. A woman writing like this is interesting because it’s so realistic for how shitty men can talk. The anticipation is building. I’m excited to see what happens, I’ve heard it’s gruesome.

Amazing so far

This is like if Tyler Perry wrote a book

Book club read

Boring prose but good story. I’m invested and happy to invest more. Also feels like a good snap back to reality from a lot of the black power stuff I get into. I’ll talk more abt that in my review I think

Chapter 23 is really good. I kinda wish I read the physical because she’s so poetic but her voice being the one reading kind of makes up for what I lose.

“Now (now when I’m writing) I see a single image from my twenty years at the Barracas Sporting Club, I dive into the pool and at the bottom I come face-to-face with another swimmer, we touch bottom simultaneously and see each other imperfectly through the sour green water.”
The author steps out of the story into his own memory to better describe an event in the story. Extremely avant garde and works so well

Random info on the west and literature and art from there. Focused on the time when Prussia was a big deal which was the same time that America was getting started and France was getting towards the French Revolution. Just speaking to how freedom is a growing notion around the world at that time and what is influencing that. Cool to see the fight btw church and state and how monarchs/artists influenced either sides.