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The mood of this reminds me so much of the finder series by carla speed mcneil. Its so deeply complex that it will also take me very long to read. I didnt realize this my first time around reading this, so im enjoying dissecting the world slowly this time.

“The Jarre was decorated in a dated, nameless style from the previous century, an uneasy blend of Japanese traditional and pale Milanese plastics, but everything seemed to wear a subtle film, as though the bad nerves of a million customers had somehow attacked the mirrors and the once glossy plastics, leaving each surface fogged with something that could never be wiped away.”

The attention to detail unparallel

Ik this kind of love is toxic & insane but why do i want it 😭

F.C. Yee does a good job of capturing the same kind of fun and witty humor of the original show. Looking forward to the rest of the book!!

I borrowed this book breifly from a friend at the beach when i foolishly forgot to bring smth to read. I was hooked from the first few pages! It’s finally made its way back to me, & what a beautiful reunion it’s been! My only regret is that i didnt just buy it from the start, because i have a feeling this is a book i need in my own collection.

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness” (Left Hand of Darkness).

2025 was a year of some good fucking books… hoping 2026 can top it but idk how anything can top my love for akira!!!!

I had to cut Parable of the Talents with something… facing the world right now feels rlly scary & hard.

Octavia Butler’s writing is ADDICTIVE.

After finishing brigands & breadknives, i decided i wanted a little refresher on the prequel! I love that baldree gives orcs & dwarves- characters almost always delegated to the flat side character / villain- their main character moments!!!

"There's a point, around age twenty," Bedap said,
"when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your pe-culiarities."

Pgs 190-191🥺 im not crying u r

I started this manga bc I wanted something similar to akira, but so far it doesn’t have the same dreamy quality… we’ll see how the rest of the series is.

Omg the dancing dwarf 9/10

Although i was super bored by this book in the beginning, im starting to see it for its quiet horrors & haunting motifs. Ive always felt terrified of the mundane & the ordinary; murakami is has done a great job of writing stories that capture the essance of this feeling for me.

An unexpectedly great read (so far) to send me into spooky season!

So far Sleep is my favorite.

Im fighting DESPERATELY to finish this book- the library has a charge on me😭

"A woman risks her life to give birth and at the end a man who's done nothing- less than nothing—in nine months says, 'God has failed us?" …

"When he was handing out common sense, he overlooked you. If he'd made you a woman, then maybe dung wouldn't come out of your mouth in place of words!”
(457-458)

Big Ammachi SPITTING

Does anyone else accidentally start reading a sex scene in public & feel like like you’ve transgressed or like someone is watching you lol

If u read my last book review I DID NOT FiNISH IT I don’t understand why I can’t make drafts in this app

“Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. The glory of the sky touched his dusty hair, and turned the thistle gold for a little while.”

“‘I’ve walked with great wizards and I’ve lived on the aisle of the wise but you are my true master Ogion.’ He spoke with love and with a somber joy.
‘Good,’ said Ogion. ‘Now you know it. Better now they never. But you will be my master in the end,”(138).

“… they are a savage people, white skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns” (11).

First big middle finger to Tolkien & I’m not mad.

Currently using my laptop stand to read The Books of Earthsea without my hands and wrists hurting

Ok I don’t know like anyone who has read this graphic novel. ANYONE. Can sum1 PLEASE so we can ki ab this book.

I’m feelin so lonely w/o lotr in my bag / on my person everyday :(

“As they listened, they began to understand the lives of the Forest, apart from themselves, indeed to feel themselves as the strangers where all other things were at home.”❤️❤️

Does anyone else wanna share fall reading lists?? 🍂🫶🏽🫶🏽

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What a relief to get back to this book after finishing Handmaid’s Tale, gosh.

I picked this up at a mini library in a cafe, and was holding myself back from tears by the end of the preface. So unexpected. I’m very excited to finish the rest of this book!