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“What if” on extended Confederate guerilla warfare: “[even in Northern cities,] potential targets would abound: banks, buildings, businesses… and possibly even newspapers and statehouses. All were vulnerable, threatening to turn these cities into nineteenth-century versions of Belfast and Beirut. Under such a scenario, month after grinding month, even year after year, who would feel under seige?”

Can’t stop thinking about glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase A (G6PD-A)???!!!! Oh my GOD???

This book so far is 70% details of a diary I don’t really care about, 10% plane jargon I don’t understand, 10% intriguing foreshadowing, and 10% straight up unexpectedly crying in my car. Obsessed

I fished 😭😭😭😭

Polio! IVF! ❤️

Comparing social media to the atomic bomb was a choice but I see what they’re going for lol

Put me to sleep i fear ☠️

“In the vortex of this debate, once the battle lines were sharply drawn, moderate ground everywhere became hostage to the passions of the two sides. Reason itself had become suspect; mutual tolerance was seen as a treachery. Vitriol overcame accommodation. And the… issue would not just fade away.”

Me? Enjoying a reskinned Reylo fanfic? It’s more likely than you think!!

As someone who LOVES yearning and tolerates smut, this is a solid 8/10 so far

I’m seeing more and more depth and things to unravel about all of these characters’ thought processes and what it means for interacting across the aisle but god i think im too much of an Angry Woman to enjoy this. But i cant/wont dnf so on we go 😆

This might be too… depressing? Dark? Real? For me. It kinda makes me mad at my completely awesome and non-Caleb-esque husband for no reason lol

“I can’t risk you” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I hadn’t caught a lot of the underlying irony at first. At face value this is really weird, but now that we’re digging deeper into the protagonist’s thoughts I’m starting to lock in

I’m conflicted with this book. Idgaf about whatever conflict SJM had to make up in a post-BBEG era. And, I know SJM won’t follow through on any real threats to main characters so it PMO that she pretends she will. However, I really relate to Nesta… She is my neurodivergent queen, and I completely understand and relate to her brain. I’m obsessed!! Also Rhys is so cancelled, just as bad as Tamlin imo :)))))

Sorry Stacy but a phone battery being used as a plot/suspense device will only fly with me once per novel MAXIMUM

Learned:
1. Jefferson was privately an abolitionist - obvi dissonant w/ actions though, didn’t free his hundreds of slaves even in his will like Washington did
2. Many secession attempts, incl New England funding England in War of 1812 🤯
3. DC structured in circles specifically w/ quelling rebellions w/ military force in mind - “Unlike in France, there should be no barricades in Washington”

Interesting what ifs!!

This writing style is hard to get into… There are a lot of arms thrusting lol

The Keiko Project!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

This was written by a journalist which is amazing, but pretty much the entire part about being worried about an oil spill is now outdated (yay! Not a concern really anymore!)

I think I can summarize this entire book with this passage:

“Though she had fought back against Tomas, against the Cauldron, against the King of Hybern, they had all HAPPENED to her. She had survived, but she had been helpless and afraid.
Not today.
Today, she would happen to HIM.”

This is making me wanna move to seattle BAD 😆

Fun fact: the words “orca” and “orc” share the same root Latin origin. Orca orcinus’ name roughly translates to “demon from hell” 😆 😆

Wow learned 3 cool things in 5 pages:
1. Orca culture revolves around food bc they have less blubber
2. “Orcas’ behavior is almost totally governed by cultural conditions and hardly at all by what we were taught in school about instincts and stimulus response and animal behavior in general”
3. No signs of internal strife in orca cultures - No signs of discipline or jousting for position within the hierarchies!

“Home, for these whales, is not a place. Their home is each other.” 😭

I picked this up hoping to learn Orca 101 and to find some resources for the topics I wanted to dig deeper on. That’s already majorly paid off!! Maybe I should be an odondocete neuroscientist in my next life 😆