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"a bitchy flibbertigibbet"

super fun so far, love a hateable main character. ridiculous tho to choose to make a world where its normal to be genderfluid and bisexual and then still make your main character a straight cis man

can we bring back characters speaking in poetry i feel like they all only stutter and say awkward shit in contemp lit

love samuel

something comforting about a long ass historical family saga

starting to see the intention of this book now, been conditioned to expect some grand finale from the last book in a series so this is refreshing. just watching the glory fade as the characters get old and them having to deal with that

also le guin going hard on the feminism now lol i think i read somewhere that she regretted how patriarchal the first book was

man i love this series. shes so good at layering lore throughout the books so that you feel like youve lived with all these characters and can see all the connections between them

many flashbacks to the war part of the gcse poetry anthology

i love when an author writes a character making such a specific observation that you know the authors done it themslves

talking about rivers noticing that only the cold faucet of the bath has condensation on it

christies a really big fan of the n word it seems

postponing the next book club book bc i cant read 2 war books in a row

this is very sad

got like an hour to fill waiting at paddington station so gonna plough through this

its getting really heavy though now the civil wars started. just horrors

the descriptions are so good and vivid omg

i think westminster abbey having been turned into a cabaret is meant to show how dark and perverse this future is but its having the opposite effect on me

a lot going on... the characters called lenina and bernard marx, is this a lenin x marx fanfic? need to know more about riemann surface tennis. funny that asbestos is used, my immediate reaction was that its part of the satire but obv not. looked it up and it was just around the time this was written that the first reports came out on asbestos causing deaths and they put in the first workplace regulations on it. mad

i also shudder when i think of the nuclear family model. top ten things to abolish in a utopia

and the award for least trustworthy character goes to

really hope they all stay friends

ladies im starting to get rlly invested

so far not the vibe i expected but intrigued

chills

reading this incredibly slowly bc ive not had to time or focus to read since work started 3

i would like andy weir to explain to me in 10 seconds why a microbiologist/high school teacher would know how to do lorentz transformations

slogging through this atp

this is the most 'sci fi for non scientists' book ive ever read. why does he not know what pair production is when i swear he mentioned annihilation before