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Ali slandered Duke so now I must stan. Go Heels!

From the outset there is no doubting Kuang’s intentions. The language is fast paced, and packed with meaning. There is no shyness, from the title to how her characters are perceived, which is only underlined by her author notes. She is pointedly accusing the Western world of abject cruelty, which is especially damning in England, who saw themselves as exporters rather than importers of colonialism and the slave trade

600 pages of exposition to finally get some rising action MY GOD

I think I’d go insane. Genuinely. The monotony of the situation, the constant surveillance, the unknown of it all. You can’t thrive in that. I almost feel like I’m going insane reading it

There’s an interesting juxtaposition here, steeped in an abundance of grey matter. There’s the sympathy for the oil techs kidnapped wife, and the fear of what could happen to hear, which is only cross referenced by the anger at these oil execs who have decimated the land and created this conflict.

Will I ever finish this book dear god

Fans of Mary Shelley would like this I think

The random racism?? “Jeune Poole confessed herself frightened by the look of Jalaber Xho, an exile prince from the Summer Isles who wore a cape of green and scarlet feathers over skin as dark as knight…”

Arya’s chapters make me want to lie across some train tracks

Two things: Catelyn is an absolute BITCH and I feel so bad for Jon Snow and two Martin is a subpar writer with absolutely no finesse or sense of poetic prose. The writing is so easy to get through cause it’s so surface level

Hooks presents a devastating history in a clear condemnation of segregated feminism as well as a clear voice for a race of women neglected from the annals of historical analysis. My heart hurts for the women abused, tortured, and forgotten in a prejudicial system.

I knew it!

Clara is Cecil. I’m calling it now.

To hell with this book and all the men in it

I fucking knew it

I have two predictions for this novel:
a) Jason is in love with Phillipa
b) Parke is going to fall in love with one of the Lang girls.

We shall see if my predictions prove correct.

HE’S A SLAVE OWNER

God I wish I didn’t have to read this for a class because if I had picked it up of my own accord I would have put it down the moment Sylvia begged to go on the boating trip. Doubly, the narrative is making me lose my good opinion of Alcott which is incredibly depressing because I have always related so heartily with Jo.

Excuse my language but this guy is a real lying piece of shit

It’s really interesting how the events of the Reformation ended up lining up with King Henry VIII and his lustful desires. I wonder how the reformation would have advanced without his decided abdication from Rome.

“A man without some sort of religion, is at best a poor reprobate…with no tie linking him to infinity and the wondrous eternity that is begun with him; but a woman without it is even worse - a flame without heat, a rainbow without color, a flower without perfume!”

“The mysterious attraction, which, from her first entrance on our scene, she evinced for Zenobia, had lost nothing of its force.”
Hawthorne discovers lesbians.

I am really not enjoying this book wow. If I didn't have to read this for a class I would have dropped it by now.

From now on I will describe my sense of style as a “deliberate lack of sexual window-dressing” from now on.

Lena's speech at the end of Part I is so good

I would love to see the data gathered from new sites such as TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter in this study. Radicalization (at least in my perspective) has increased over the past decade and I wonder how different the conversation would be if we looked at these new statistics.

Will I finish this? It's so fucking disgusting man

Enlightening discussion on Rousseau and Mill and now WE’RE TALKING ABOUT CAR ASSEMBLY LINES IM SO BORED

What is actually going on