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DNFing. i just can't. the prose is too dense. it's giving victorian gothic but in the 1940's and dennis' voice was fun for a while but i just zone out for pages now. the characters aren't grabbing me and the story isn't either.

grace shilling you have one chapter to convince me not to dnf this book

i fear the story is reeling me in but the writing style is giving pretentious guy at a party who thinks he can use sophisticated words he doesn't entirely know the meaning of as long as he does so with egocentric confidence because then no one will call him out for being wrong. never has the word esoteric been used so many times in 20 pages, never has "his load" been used so much on one page.

devouring this book like the stickiest, sweetest fig

the way the sex scene between ursa and absalom is written like a horror.

"The magnitude of her ambition is what prevents her from trying"

i'm going to have to wait until the end before i can pass judgement on the story itself but if i was rating this for the writing style alone it'd be ten fucking stars. the most delicious prose i have consumed in a loooong while

this is such a beautiful book i'm obsessed already

Some time later the same major is driving along when he sees the militiaman still with the penguin.
"What have you been doing?" he asks. "I said take him to the zoo."
"We've been to the zoo, Comrade Major," says the militiaman, "and the circus. And now we're going to the pictures."

1 page in and i'm already obsessed

okay maybe it's my fault for accidentally picking up heterosexual YA but tell me WHY a 16 year old girl is choosing a 300 year old man who looks young and hot instead of the childhood best friend she describes as beautiful every other sentences and loves to the point of defying the laws of magic and nature ?????

this is giving fantasy parks and rec in the best way

my cover's so much nicer than this one sorry i just had to flex

need every academic essay writer to read the language portion of this book

"The choice before us is not so much between victory and defeat as between revolution and apathy. If the thing we are fighting for is altogether destroyed, it will have been destroyed partly by our own act."

"From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books."

thyroid mention 🤠🥳

visceral book oh my god

"The memories swirl as I try to sort out what is true and what is false... This is hard because the effects of the concussion she gave me haven't completely subsided and my thoughts still have a tendency to jumble together. Also, the drugs they use to control my pain and mood sometimes make me see things."

she had her own highjacking by 13 :(

the scene where katniss comes home from the woods and the peacekeepers are waiting for her expecting her to be caught on the other side of the fence but she comes home to her mother and prim and haymitch and peeta are there too and it's so sweet and domestic and i don't know man it just gets me very emotional every time i read it

"We're all idiots. How's that?"
"Better," I say, and accept his kiss.

"I think of Haymitch, unmarried, no family, blotting out the world with drink. He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude - that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement."

ah man :(((

"Doubt it. Be a pain to replace you at this stage," says Haymitch.

little louella :(((

""Lots of. .." He can't think of the word for a while. "Spunk!" he says triumphantly. "More than you!" He releases me and starts for the front of the stage. "More than you!" he shouts, pointing directly into a camera. Is he addressing the audience or is he so drunk he might actually be taunting the Capitol?"

i want to inhale this entire book

i tried to pace myself i really did

i should NOT be reading this on my period oh my god

"she was what is called a fine-looking woman for her time of life" i ❤️ victorian milfs

I don't want it to end. I'd keep reading forever.

"Billions of years ago, a single, fuke, self-copying cell learned how to turn a barren ball of poison gas and volcanic slag into this peopled garden. And everything you hope, fear, and love became possible."

"There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things."

i fear this book may ruin me