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could not get through even 3 pages of practical magic, classic though it may be, so am attempting this instead

this book suffered coming out the same year as the bright sword, which is probably more politically interesting, beautifully written, humorous, and narratively compelling across the board

"if legal protections for survivors are bound to policing mechanisms, the universalism of the victim subject remains race and gender neutral toward criminalization lodged within the corpus of white humanity"

"VAWA’s safety cannot escape its anti-­ Black form within modern American law because it relies on policing, and policing is structured through the systemic criminalization of Black people."

if we're supposed to take the narrator seriously i'm going to kms

it's an absolutely insane experience to read a book like this about someone you know (elly's brother was one of my favorite professors and she also worked at the college and literally every student interacted with her) .. part of me wants to shake elly's mother and say she ends up having a wonderful and communal life!! and part of me is like wow the way we treated people with intellectual disabilities was crazy.

this is going to be a solid 4* if it keeps it up — i think the conclusion (destruction of the british empire, the realisation that arthur's legacy is imperialism, victory or at least a hard emotional loss of the indigenous british cultures and religions, god isn't real or he's real and not the best) is fairly self-evident, but i've finally gotten into the swing of the writing and find it quite lovely now

this book is so episodic it's a little hard to follow along. also if he kills off bevidere im going to be so mad. let him be gay and sad in PEACE

guys this is a weird fucking book

for the goodreads 'summer' challenge as i have time to read either moby dick or east of eden but not both before i restart "employment"

i fear our white director of magic is going to do lesbianism with this white cop. why does it have to be this way

this is so fun so far.. british fantasy >>>>> american fantasy, in terms of hoth historical intrigue and humor. although i deeply hope the lesbian relationship i think ive been promised is not between walden and the mean cop

the epigenetics and mythology concepts are so interesting i wish more time was devoted to that rather than the individual threads of drama between these women, whose personalities are starting to blur

why are so many cops named judy

i thought this would be a faithful retelling of snegurka but end of part i has a puzzling twist so now i don’t think the snow girl can just melt away after winter. also it’s alaska maybe it’s just always winter there

after taking a 2-3yr break after the last sentence of my brilliant friend shook me to the core i have decided to at least finish this book, which is now possibly making me suicidal . but now i think i will finish the series and then reread mbf to see the few things that changed and all that stayed so wrong

i wish i had more of either self-control or instinct toward self-preservation bc i am so stressed and scared at this point i made A stay on the phone with me (he has a day full of meetings) so i could have a tether to the real world while im reading about all these girls dying in gruesome empiric ways

anyone who knows me would rightfully assume i’m out of my mind if i choose to read horror of my own volition but. the two main characters here share names w my roommate & myself and so. i was Curious. and also im pretty sure this is a lesbian horror novel about the “rot” of the british empire. not groundbreaking stuff but not a genre i read in so it’s interesting. but also terrifying

it is quite sad to see the shadows of lynch's own life cast upon locke's, from the alcoholic binge to the germanish word he invented for suicidal ideation, but i will say one thing lynch excels at is writing a book nobody expected. it seems to be a unanimous opinion that this third book is the weakest of the 3/7 written so far, but i am still amused

HE'S SO DUMB. HE'S SO STUPID. LOCKE LAMORA YOU WILL DIE LIKE THIS. also leigh bardugo you are so lucky scott lynch didnt come after you w a lawsuit and a hammer it's genuinely laughable how six of crows reads like the YA version of this book (published in 2006)

why can’t i ever stumble into reading something unexpectedly lighthearted and whimsical lately it feels like every novel i pick up ends up surprise dipping into the horror genre and i get Scared when reading after evelyn’s gone to bed . brushes w the supernatural aside this book is funny jess kidd writes very rhythmically and has always had very strongly embodied narrators

oh no the ensemble got better as it went along but this is starting in a really rough spot

this book is like yolk by mary hk choi on steroids and even as a rare yolk enjoyer i don’t mean that in a good way

when thorn said ophelia has a 'preternatural tendency' to get herself into 'disasters'... truer words have never been spoken. the fun thing about these books is even if the endings are frightfully predictable you never have any idea what kind of 'soup' ophelia will dunk herself into next

how is this one of the most celebrated YA books in translation to english the plot doesn’t make Sense . none of this should be plausibly happening to the fiancée of a guy powerful enough to be detested by the whole court

so i thought this was a retelling of east of the sun west of the moon (the norwegian fairytale) and apparently that isn’t the case and this first book has been ranted at for being terribly misogynistic but i am very easily compelled by fantasy world building so i’ll keep going i guess. reading this in the winthrop book depot & cafe w an apple cider vinegar lemonade

why is there a third book in this series. leigh bardugo your biggest hit was your duology there's no need to keep trying to write 3 books in each universe. unfortunately i have not read a single thing by bardugo that trumps six of crows but i will read the third book in this series because i think ill have nightmares about what might happen in it if i don't

i forgot im a coward and a baby and its 1am and there are weird noises coming from my closet

man i do not care about darlington unless he’s a completely different person than he’s been presenting as this whole time i dont want to be in his head or the past let me talk to alex