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Picked this up with no preconceptions about the book whatsoever but I figure it might be polarising…? Either way I’m kind of in love with the narrative voice. Reminds me of my own freshman year sometimes thus far. The elite liberal arts education equivalent of Andy Weir’s sci-fi shtick #tome

First read this as a 13? 14? (definitely too young) year old making do with single-line fine print on a mass market paperback :DDD

Rereading the series after having read AWOIAF, AKOTSK and Fire & Blood has been an Experience though... my most surprising realisation is that I just... do not like the Lannisters as much as I remembered 😭

First audiobook experience! 🥰

Every Shropshire mention in this book is making me laugh hehe what in the West Midlands propaganda… 🙂‍↕️

The way I’m just breezing through this book omfg I love unemployment

My Croatia trip unexpectedly reawakened the ASOIAF thirlie in me I fear… Elissa Farman I am so into you!!!!!

My conspiracy theory is that Big Church:tm: had to change Benitez's ethnicity from Filipino to Mexican in the film adaptation because Benitez is just so Cardinal Chito coded that it would've just fueled the first Filipino pope propaganda (Fropeaganda) smh

Ppl disliking Ivan/hating Ivan's chapters when Peter literally has the 5'7-annoying-liberal energy of every other cishet man that you will meet in postgrad...

:')

I’ve only had Ivan and Margaret for 38 pages but if anything happened to them I am ready to kill everyone in this room and then myself

“It is easier, I think, to consider the fact of us in its many disparate pieces, as opposed to one vast and intractable thing. Easier, I think, to claw through the scatter of us in the hopes of retrieving something, of pulling some singular thing from the debris and holding it up to the light.

So in pieces, then: a long time ago, we met.”

“I used to imagine the sea as something that seethed and then quietened, a froth of activity tapering down into the dark and still. I know now that this isn’t how it goes, that things beneath the surface are what have to move and change to cause the chain reaction higher up.” 🫨🫨🫨

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”

Are you kidding me I'VE BARELY TURNED THE MF PAGE

possibly one of the most interesting—and genuinely Thee most esoteric—readings I've ever started in my life... i say this affectionately though!!!