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“She has been losing him a paragraph at a time, but the chapter is done. And the book is close to its end.”

😭💔

“As folk had done since time immemorial, she got on with things, because otherwise... who would feed the dog?”

This hits differently as an adult.

Ah shit, here we go again. 😎

Reading for bookclub!

Is… is something weird actually going on in this book? 👀 Or is reading this book like a test to see how long it takes for the reader to think something weird is happening? Hmm…

"Up here, you could look out into the depths of space and try to count the stars, each of them orbited by countless planets. From up here, you could see every possibility."

"My bulimia has made me better at giving blowjobs."

Excuse me??? How? Is your gag reflex not overactive now?

"I began with an interest in 'hack and slay,' but then I stayed to chat."

I get "back in my day!" vibes from this author at times. Like... you're not the main character. People in airports and coffee shops and wherever are not there to entertain you with conversation on demand. Let them read their books, listen to music, or whatever.

"But if you're spending three, four, or five hours a day in an online game or virtual world (a time commitment that is not unusual), there's got to be someplace you're not."

[insert "is this fucking play about us" meme here]

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

!!!

by the late 1990s, children were presented with digital "creatures" that made demands for attention

Me setting an alarm for 3am to feed my tamagotchi. 😂

He told me that RL "is just one more window." And, he added, "it's not usually my best one."

Oof.

"mother just ungrounded me for war crimes"

lol

The character growth from Seivarden. 🤌💋

So it literally took like half the book for stuff to get going, but I'm here for it now!

"I was a delight as a child. All my teachers said so."

"You know the words 'handful' and 'chaos personified' and 'perhaps actual demon, has your family been dabbling in sorcery?' do not mean the same thing as 'delightful'' don't you?"

Roll away the stone! Knock down the tower!!

The message being "too simple for human beings like us to understand," and John commenting on the internet not existing anymore, has me thinking thoughts. 🧐

I just love them so much. 😭💘

The voice acting here is incredible.

If John could grow flowers, then couldn't he... do other nature stuff to save the planet? Let the trillionaires fuck off to Tau Ceti, then start a new society not ruled by runaway capitalism here.

Why doesn't John just unalive the trillionaires on Earth before they even get a chance to launch? I know he's an unreliable narrator, and yes, we need the trillionaires to leave to even have these books, but damn.

Always with the canned peaches.

I love that Cam and Pal are so good that they can best a lyctor. 😌

"I have seen, as the poets would put it, some shit."

Probably the best Ianthe line. 😂

"Paul gets born"

[insert fire elmo image here]

I love that in the audiobook that it's clear it's Harrow speaking here.

Nona just casually talking to a resurrection beast is so naively sweet.