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The magic of Ancient Egypt never fails to captivate me

I haven't forgot about this...

"The girlbosses need rest and relaxation." I die inside every time I read 2010s slang in a book.

I went through such a Kirino phase in 2021 - when I saw this was out I had to download it immediately.

I'm obsessed with this. Three interlinked fantasy settings based on pre-Christian Ireland, Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. This book was written for me.

Random use of Irish?! 😍 I knew there was a point of learning this language for 14 years (to understand 3 sentences in a fantasy novel)

I keep seeing this book come up as a recommendation in aesthetic reels...I'm not sure if it's my thing but I can't resist anymore.

Halloween seasonal reading is finally beginning 👻

What is happening in this book 😭

The more I read about the British colonisation of the North of Ireland, the angrier I get. The parallels with Palestine are palpable.

I had this reserved at the library but the instant gratification of the ebook calls me

What is even the point of Ned's story?

So hard to empathise with Ned when he's a Cromwell supporter :/

The lack of capitalisation for the names of religions?? What editor let this go to print...

So boring but I'm going to power through the last quarter 😓

It's sending me over the edge that there's a character named Homer Simpson in this book (published 1939)

Why are Murakami's sex scenes always so WEIRD 😭

I know the unseen majority of Howard's class wish he'd shut up and actually teach them 😭 they don't care about your WW1 fixation, they want a sample essay on Martin Luther

Are you even at the airport if you're not reading Marian Keyes

Abigail is such a little brat. The second-hand frustration is too much to handle.

"I mean, obviously the real problem with unattainable beauty standards is that they're rooted in gender constructs imagined by white people millenniums ago." How to tell that an author is a millennial American 😭

Are you happy Erica 🙄

"I have an advantage she can never hope for. Those thirty-one allies I boasted of to the Head Gamemaker? I can feel every one of them at my back." Don't make me cringe like this Suzanne 😭

Lenore Dove, fabric softener + deodorant 😭 I can't take her seriously now

"In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives..." A very fitting year to read this book.

The translation isn't great...do I give up now?

No full stops or quotation marks is an interesting choice 🤨

Why is it such a common thing for doctors to not know anything about the drugs that they are prescribing??

"in 1917, his parents had sold Sophie’s jewelry to donate funds toward the foundation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine." ...oh

Ok not trying to victim blame...but maybe all these doctors should've researched the drugs they were prescribing to their patients instead of basing their opinions on magazine ads 😭😭