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I miss the ~90 minute long epic chapters of the first two books - I know there aren’t any flashbacks in this one so the structure is all off, but it just feels wrong to be up to chapter 9 (where the other books ended) and only a third of the way through haha

I hate the way this guy writes women

Marseille mention !

Being a New Zealander and only knowing like one thing about WWI really adds to the sense of foreboding of the climax here. Everything else about the war, however horrible, feels quite distant (which is part of the point of the story) but I know far too well what the “CRISIS: 7 April-17 May 1951” in the title of Part 6 is going to be

The cake monologue is so endearing, and brilliant world building too

Happy “there’s only one thing worse than a whale” “gasp - a white” chapter 42 day

im struggling