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The pet death in this just wrecked me, and I wish I could have opted out. It's on the last four or five pages in the huge booklet you read like a newspaper that has a green suburban street on the front page.

"And so eventually I got on the internet and looked you up."

Eddie absolutely looking the Prince up on Wikipedia and going straight for the "personal life" section.

"We call it a society. It involves coming to accommodations with others."

Libby doesn't think I can finish this before my loan is up. Racing against time to prove her wrong.

“Hello!” she shouts. “I’m a therapist!”

The last two Tchaikovsky books I read barely even mentioned bugs, so I momentarily forgot about his bug thing. This one, though, is literally wall to wall bugs, and the narrator finds them disgusting. So not a good time for the bug haters, but for the bug lovers, there's also an apocalyptic amount of bug harm, so I guess no one's happy.

"It was bugs on bugs on bugs, bugs by land, air and sea, bugs all the way down."

Back to the atrocities of war.

Farhrenkrug brings God into this cookbook and my eyes narrow.

"He would have thought that he'd get better at losing everything."

I have a week to read this. I think I can do it.

“Eat the rich,” I said.

Zachary Quinto shout-out.

From "Just Thinking":

Let the bucket of memory down into the well,
bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one
stirring, no plans. Just being there.

I hate it when Carl comes up with a plan all "that just might work!" and then doesn't tell us what it is.

I overlook a lot of stuff in these books, but I will not forgive this jammed up sentence:

Akuma started to ramble through clenched teeth.

"Love the earth like a mole"

Jesus Christ. Samantha's summary of the last book made me feel like I'd hit my head. I remember some of the action and almost none of the names. But I'm sure Matt will remind me again later.

From "Malheur before Dawn":

Frogs discovered their national anthem again.
I didn't know a ditch could hold so much joy.

From "Bi-Focal":

So, the world happens twice—
once what we see it as;
second it legends itself
deep, the way it is.

Pioneer stuff from the next poem: "the shed and windmill / rear so glorious the sun shudders like a gong."

Okay, "An Oregon Message" starts out with his usual pioneer imagery then takes an abrupt turn to, like, paranoia and the moon:

This message we smuggle out in
its plain cover, to be opened
quietly: Friends everywhere—
we are alive! Those moon rockets
have missed millions of secret
places! Best wishes.

Burn this.

I love it when Murderbot talks about us like we're rats: "If there's a way for humans to get into anywhere, they'll get in there." 😂

LOL it's like Martha Wells saw me complaining that my least favorite thing in this series is all the descriptions of walking and was like CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Even Murderbot's complaining.

This is SO TENSE.

Lena!!!!!

"Somewhere along the way, Trey’s mates have filed Lena under Noncombatant Adult, meaning they don’t worry that she’ll squeal on them to the real adults for minor infringements like cursing."

"One mark of progress as a writer is reading something and knowing that you couldn’t have written it earlier than you did. I wrote this in 2021, right on time."

"The rhymes here are nothing special, but the story is my favorite kind of mystery: one where you can’t say exactly where the mystery is, but you sense its presence. Yes, I’m Catholic, why do you ask?"

John Darnielle's comments, in total, on To The Headless Horseman: "The original draft of this is more hopeful. That is why we revise."