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Wow, that GR description reeks of AI "enhancement." Not a drop of actual plot at all.

Giving this a second chance on the adamant advice of a friend. I was a fan of Queen of Glass, the original story that Maas posted on Fiction Press, which was much darker, and when I read the published version I found the YA-ification utterly dismaying. Friend insists the other books are better and darker, so I'll give it a try. Listening now so I can do crafts at the same time.

Kiddo picked this out at the bookstore and enjoyed the first (totally not scary) chapter about a kid who turns into a bug. Chapter two includes a show with weekly episodes and annual seasons, a streaming service password, and a cryogenic chamber, so I'm not sure how much he gets, but we've still read it twice.

Oh yikes, cave/mine horror might finally get me good.

Oof. Content warning for anyone who is sleep deprived or hormonal or otherwise less emotionally steady than usual: <spoiler>a bit less than halfway through the book, a 7-months pregnant mother of four loses three of her children to fever in one night. The oldest child is Joanna's best American friend, and we know and love her two younger siblings as well. Not sure about the mother/baby yet.</spoiler>

At the end of part 1, this book is living up to all the love I've heard. A nice easy read I'm fitting in mostly while nursing and not reading parenting books.

For an English major, I'm embarrassingly slow at reading most nonfiction and most books over 500 pages. But so far almost every page of Native Nations is completely mind-blowing to me. I finished Part I: The Indigenous Peoples of North America, 1000s to 1750, and the political transformation that the spotlighted nations went through is just astounding. I haven’t had my mind feel opened up like this since college!

I feel guilty rereading childhood/middle school favorites when I have so many unread books on my shelf, but they're what I feel up to reading these days.

"All the pretty dead white girls" would be a good title for another book.

Loving it so far! I wasn't expecting the delightful addition of oral history.