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Thought I wrote decent prose until I read Nick Joaquin :[

“And when at closing time at one night, two weeks after they had parted, he came out of the club and saw the yellow convertible waiting and her face at the window, the world around him swiftly lost impact; the babble of departing folk faded remotely; the moonlight turned fluid and he found himself being washed into her car, his every step the graduated motion of a figure in a movie.”

AI recommended this to me as a “romance book for people who do not read romance,” and honestly it’s pretty awesome so far. I think I still need to do research on how accurate this book is in showing Asperger’s, though.

There is a lot of exposition and the writing is awkward compared to the first book. I’d chalk this up to translation as the difference between the writing style of Book 1 & 2 is bizarre.

The idea of creating human logic gates by making millions of soldiers symbolize 1s and 0s is so creative. I want to see it done irl

"I am going to include a parenting for grit guide at the end even though I have no substantial research linking the two" is a very weird way to increase word count.

"When struggling to analyze a complex problem, shift your point of view from that of outside observer to that of the thing you are analyzing"

I am a rivet I am a rivet I am a rivet