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New cat ward book is always like snuggling down with hot chocolate and a big blanket and having a nervous breakdown

Man I am struggling with this one tbqh

Kylie is out here making me feel absolutely sick to my stomach

Mace windu wants to do a “a little straightforward, uncomplicated buttwhipping”

But the Jedi are not allowed to do a buttwhipping

And this too is the regressive sexual politics of the Jedi :(

Best part of the “introduction” (it’s a prologue) is when palpatine is overcome with horror at the existence of swords that are simply sharp pieces of metal

I’m sorry but “at least we were just bitten by bats and it wasn’t a ghost” is an insane thing to say and one of these kids is a fact machine. You guys need to exit these woods and get rabies shots immediately. I’m like not a huge proponent of books demonstrating Everyone Makes Good Choices but tbh I think you shouldn’t put “bat bites are fine” in ur book for 9 year olds

Rarely have I screeched and screamed SHOOT HIM SHOOT HIM so profoundly

Honoria is an evil troll but she’s so spot on…honoria lampooning every stupid hysteria she sees…honoria i love you Honoria please be in a toxic romance with me

Things aren’t looking good folks

Chapter 108 ahab and the carpenter is one of the greatest pieces of writing in the English language. BY HEAVENS! I’LL GET A CRUCIBLE, AND INTO IT, AND DISSOLVE MYSELF DOWN TO ONE SMALL, COMPENDIOUS VERTEBRA. SO.

All I can say is that it’s a shame I didn’t know she wrote short stories like this until recently because oh boy I could have been feasting

“And here be it said, that whenever it has been convenient to consult [a dictionary] in the course of these dissertations, I have invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson’s, expressly purchased for that purpose; because that famous lexicographer’s uncommon personal bulk more than fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me.”

“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come to supply the thoughts.”

I wish you did not tell me about what ambergris is

Cannot believe that ten pages after I was hooting I’m crying

HOLY SH*T

MARK ME! This book is insanely good

“The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it.” If you think Herman loves whale tails you should see the part of this chapter where he talks about men’s chests

Okay I have to add a second line from this chapter eg “But how? Genius in the sperm-whale? Has the sperm-whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it.”