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second (third?) reread time thank you cassie clare

amundsen is simultaneously a twat and the funniest person in the world

the difference between this book and katabasis is that explains the million references because alex doesn’t get them, whereas katabasis drove me clinically insane

I know i am not the one to be trusted as an expert on men but darlington is so BORING my god get to fuck. “I hope we get him back” I hope a shapeshifted cockerel eats him at least thatd make him interesting

is this a safe space to admit I thought the trojan horse debacle really happened until like two years ago

fuck you mean alex is short for galaxy

I think the highlight of this book is how many times a pissed off crew member steals a gun and makes a threat before they even reach antarctica

fuck you mean a leopard seal tried to eat one of them on two separate occasions

I sat down to read a bit of this while I ate tea. I blinked and read two thirds of the buggering thing

james clarke ross mentioned

big fan of the kid who was playing with a discovered cask of gunpowder and accidentally blew up the igloo

last 100 pages of a robin hobb book. Im sure nothing heartbreakingly earth shattering will happen

robin hobb’s ability to write detestable men needs to be studied. I need hest finbok taken out back and put down like a rabid dog

clary is going two for two in brother kissing in one day and we haven’t even hit 50% yet

google search is luke beekeeping age

I will say there is one thing I will credit dan simmons for and it is his explanation for the peglar papers. heartbreaking, thanks, never write again

book gets better when everyone starts fucking dying. but also peglar :(

over twenty people have saved that goddamn twt thread of me crashing out while reading this book. horrific

sir john dead FINALLYYYYY!! one more chapter of him comparing pubic hair of his wives to native girls would’ve done me in. fitzjames dull as hell compared to his show version and his actual historical personality. hickey is being suspiciously quiet. and I won’t lie ive read better prose in some ya books BUT I am already deeply invested in the history so im having fun but angry about it

not to be that one friend who doesn’t play about dr john rae but he simply would’ve got up and walked that off. or better yet he would’ve have been that fucking stupid

I think about dr john rae in the autumn of 1854 the same way christians think about christ on the cross

john rae detailing and sympathising with a man who resorted to cannibalism two chapters before setting off on his expedition where cannibalism-related-chats are going to put him in lifelong beef with charles dickens is a level of foreshadowing you don’t see outside of english lit class

yeah smash

the fact that the time travel romance book with a polar explorer was about graham gore and not john rae is a crime

there comes a point where this is simply a cannibalism how-to guide

don’t judge a book by its cover and all that but the mummified john torrington was certainly a choice babe

if I even suspected that my girlfriend thought about her brother when we kissed I would maybe address that simon

everyone else writing home: it’s cold, pretty though, love you
james fitzjames, for some fucking reason: collins is mad, no wife for me, goodsir walks on tiptoes, I stripped and nearly drowned in a canoe, I saw a 25ft dolphin, no wife for me x2, fuck this fox

this man’s annoying as fuck im surprised they didn’t cannibalise him sooner

call me paranoid but if the two ice masters, employed solely on the basis that they understand the ice, on MY trip to the arctic, decided to take out life insurance before the ships left, I would probably call in sick

this is so much fucking funnier than i remember