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The author's narration is driving me potty. She emphasises about every third word. So overdone.

Bit of a false ending! I thought I was getting to the epilogue then saw I have over 2.5 hours of audiobook left!

Straight back in to being awesome

A serious and well written book that is completely throwing me out the zone with poor cultural references. It's 1990 and I can just about believe a random teenager has heard of Courtney Love (though unlikely) I'm pretty sure there's no band called Pearl Jam quite yet and she's certainly not playing their records. Argh. This stuff isn't hard to get right if you really feel the only way to signal 1990 is to include it.

Just when I thought Lyon couldn't be any more of a bastard!

Just found out this is the second in a series. Argh! Going to read the first now.

I'm not sure what it is that makes me persevere with this series, but I know for sure it's not second person narration 🤨

Turns out literally everything Carter wrote was enlightening and entertaining. Currently in a section made up of magazine reviews of books about food from the 1970s and loving it!

Chapter 36 and I THINK, maybe, we're going to get some plot. I'll report back.

I'm listening to the Moby Dick big read. Every chapter read by someone different. So far Tilda Swinton was great and Nigel Williams was brilliant. Enjoying the authenticity of hearing the pages being turned! (Page count complete guesswork.)

Oh go on then!

I'd forgotten about Barnabas!! 🤎🐕🤎

LIKING this: half Neil Gaiman, half Rachel Aaron, wholly its own thing.

So many people have made the same comment about having trouble reading the quantity and type of books they usually would in the current situation. Makes you wonder what it's really doing to our mental health.

"Fuck this dead-end town and the doomed, self-sabotaging weakness it had instilled in us all. I was done.. [,..] I climbed on the back of a friend's motorcycle and fled the boring, brown-dirt, shit-hilled wastelands of eastern Washington State for Seattle. A dope fiend in the waiting, a hillbilly, an idiot-know-nothing sex freak, game for the city and every dark thing it had to offer."

What could possibly go wrong.

"Like me, Donna preferred the company of women" - nice way to put it!

Also, seriously, what a life. It's a miracle he's still here.

Whoop! New Rachel Aaron!

Moving a book off my "will finish one day" shelf doesn't happen very often and is worthy of celebration! 5.5 years later I am definitely hooked.

Moving a book off my "will finish one day" shelf doesn't happen very often and is worthy of celebration! 5.5 years later I am definitely hooked.

Oh, this is right up my street!

Hallelujah!! Goodreads now saves reviews in draft if unfinished! I lost so many half written reviews over the years. Phew!

Blistering first essay from Charlotte Shane.

The email postscripts! asdfgHj

The number of Hamilquotes in this book.. !

I'm really trying! When does it get interesting?!

God this is dull.

Won't somebody think of us lepidopterophobes?! *shudder*

I respect that fact that Shannon has written a standalone fantasy novel - a rare beast - but I am starting to suspect that this is in fact a cunningly disguised tetralogy. I feel like I've been reading it for year. Good though.

Oh my god this is soooooo slow.

I think, maybe, something is going to happen now? I feel like I've been reading this book for years.