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Ok this book is littered with stupid airy fairy semi religious quotes, for example

"to know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive" - Robert Louis Stevenson

turn to pg 153,

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" - Duke Ellington

THAT'S JUST A SONG ABOUT DUKE ELLINGTON LIKING SWING MUSIC.THAT'S NOT INSPIRATIONAL

Currently going into week 6 out of I think 12?

It's got some good bits and some like, really tone deaf bits. Good thing I'm good at filtering out the shit.

Someone should really publish a much smaller, concise, better version of this book.

Mmmm yes poker, yes I understand 🧐 you play well and make money, yes.... 🤔🧘‍♀️🤑

I'M A READING MACHINE!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥

Just going into week 4 of 12. I really think someone should condense, modernise and remove the religion aspect and then it would be like actually recommendable.

"(I always think of kriyas as spiritual seizures. Perhaps they should be spelled /crias/ because they are cries of the soil as it is wrung through changes.)"

JULIA THIS IS SOME CRAZY SHIT

Didn't realise this was going to have such a religion heavy aspect to it, I actually don't mind, but it does feel apt that I started reading this in a deconsecrated church in town.

Ventured out of the house for the first time in over a week to collect this book from the library. I was actually watching a documentary yesterday about artists interpreting science and one guy was recreating/visualising this book in the California desert.

I got the pdf of this and searched for the word "God". There were 180 results, so I went through and censored it all, and started from the beginning 👍 Julia's a little too woowoo for me but I'll let it slide

Is this set in an alternate world where therapy doesn't exist??? Oh it's either pSyChoActIvE DruGs or eXpEriMenTaL bRaIn sCaNs for my autistic son, who totally just needs his access needs met and proper medical support team.

This is such a weird caricature of Greta thunberg...

Oval faced girl in tight pig tales blew a raspberry???

"No doctor can diagnose my son better than I can."

SHUT THE FUCK UP DUDE, YOU'RE AN ASTROBIOLOGIST/GEOLOGIST

i have trapped myself on a train to Cambridge with just this book so I will actually read it

Wait why is this guy talking like he's some secret psychopath

Yeah I've just completely shit on Frankenstein with a 3 star review, but I'm totally rating this book 4+ stars when I'm done, tough shit

I reserved the 1818 version from the library and it's taking forever so I reserved another one, which turns out to be an earlier copy! So go me I guess

It's the earliest surviving draft that has been transcribed by the Ashmolean. Pretty cool stuff. They also have all of Percy Shelley's edits in italics so you can see what he did.

Oh yeah this is definitely one of the best discworld books, along with reaper man, can't wait to see where it goes next 👀

THE WAIT IS OVER
I reserved this book on the 19 Feb from the library
Cannot wait to read (listen) to this in a day and then wait another couple months for the next one 🤩😤🫡

Oh yeahhh it's time to read another graphic novel on an unusually serious theme.

I'm a slut for a piece of work in
//a genre that is considered childish//
but is actually about
//horrific and serious subject//

Holy moly this lady has lived a lot of lives, I think I've lived a total of 1?

Sometimes I start reading a book and almost immediately know it's going to change my perspective. This is one of them for sure.

tbf I know fuck all about Iran

THIS GUY HAS A SEX DIARY?? and not even just like date and time, no, a full narration of events, for his whole life?? AND THEN he accidentally has sex with his wife's sister who is pretending to be her??

...This is a sign I need to put the book down and go to bed.

"'You could tell me now that you were a spy, and we would go on talking calmly, just as we're talking now. I would let you wander off to wherever spies go when a war is over. You know why?' he said.
'No,' I said.
'Because you could never have served the enemy as well as you served us,'"

"But the ad for that queer weight wasn't the queerest thing in my mailbox. There were some things a lot queerer than that."

Reading a dual language version on internet archive... We shall see how this goes 🫡

"I'm not a soldier, not a political man. I'm an artist. If war comes, I won't do anything to help it along. If war comes, it'll find me still working at my peaceful trade."

Oh what a great few lines, love you Kurt x

"superfags" is kind of cunty actually

Also really appreciating the illustrations this morning, really good composition, nice imagery parallels 😗👌 chefs kiss

Ok so they've gone downwards, and for a while I thought this whole book would just be about rocks. About halfway through the book Jules starts cooking? Genuinely think he might have started taking drugs at this point.

Also I love my copy of the book, the translators have fact checked the measurements:
"we are under England"*
*the travellers are under the Pyrenees if the league=3miles

Aka Jules can't do maths