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Tons of PR history here. Bad Bunny’s halftime show, while self-referential to colonial history, could’ve rocked some more worlds if it had been willing to deviate from its “love>hate” message. What an alternate timeline to ponder. Sterilization campaigns, contraceptive experiments without consent, nationalist uprisings, state sanctioned violence against Americans, assassination attempts against the US prez??

Oh no! Having a blast again. These Pulitzer judges might be on to something with the talent they identify lol

Hey, turns out hell isn’t hot enough!

I’m very impressed with how on-the-nose and meta art can avoid being preachy. I think this novel will give me the ultimate impetus to read “Are Prisons Obsolete?” The world is heavy, but the artistry in this author’s advocacy is something to behold.

“She strokes sapsuckers’ crests without naming the colour, makes a needle and a thread of the thrill she feels in touching it, then stitches it into the joy Garden expects her to feel in the woods”

Stressed out!

A mostly plotless novel I’m mostly glad exists

Might just follow Charlotte McConaghy to the ends of the earth

Stayed up late to keep reading this and holy crap?? In a fantastic way

What a unique and compelling setup. Dare I say, spooky! Also, so many ecological Easter eggs in books I’ve been reading lately. Yummy

Ready to go ham on doomsday prepping. I think I’m more susceptible to cults than I thought

“He hadn’t cried when Andreas, only sixteen, had left home to join an ideal, a dream, a terror, leaving them in a state of constant fear”

I find myself again reading a sad historical fiction. Magical realism AND ecology in this one though which is a treat

Spoilers included: Going to finish this book today just to be free of it. Very confused about the appeal of the book given that the identity of the murdered person, the murderer, and the fact that the responsible parties get away with the murder is revealed VERY early in the book. It’s well written, but I don’t understand its purpose

SPOILER: So far all I know is the raging homophobe gets murdered, and I’m crying no tears. I see why people thought Babel knocked this plot off

Sometimes interesting, sometimes not. Wouldn’t recommend this author to most people, but when I read her work I am reaffirmed she must be a really interesting/good hang.

Yes, I do know I have too many books going at once right now!

“As objects, books were sacred, and you built temples for us, and later, libraries in whose hushed and hallowed halls we resided as mirrors of your mind, keepers of your past, evidence of your boundless imaginations, and testimony to the infinitude of your dreams and desires. Why did you revere us so? Because you thought we had the power to save you from meaninglessness, from oblivion and even death…”

Oh no! A book written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author about a self-indulgent/intelligent professor confronted by a moral quandary! How ever will I cope? I feel I have slipped and fell into my 19 year old brain’s wildest dreams. Insufferable. I’m having so much fun.

“Infinity might be boring, but it is profoundly inescapable and, surprisingly, rude”

I have a hypothesis on where this is going, and I know I will cry. Love is sweet, urgent, & human.

“Every song I’ve listened to has been directly about me…Every flower has been blooming straight into my fucking face”

“After that first kiss, I wouldn’t have questioned anything. Possibility, freedom. If a great winged angel had come up from the earth and burst apart, I would have gathered its feathers”

“Maybe it’s because we could pass along science…you couldn’t do that with soul-learning. We all started from zero…And the dead couldn’t teach us anything about that…you just had to live and suffer and then teach your kids to do the same. From a distance, habit passing for happiness”

“To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence”

The book got good! Lots of fun tension building. A murder mystery that is covering its tracks well despite not having too many characters to blame. A reviewer on the back cover said Isabel Allende fans would be into this, and I agree!

Ok it reads very YA and teenaged angsty, but I’m having fun with the plot. Sorry for being a bitch to the kids! I just don’t love that I have to read feminine rage in the form of giant bionicle fought alien battles, ok? Sue me. ALSO SPOILER: I know there’s a poly love story coming in, and it’s going to be genuinely a blast

I’m going into this book with the wrong mindset, but I’m gritting my teeth to start this. I purchased the book before knowing it was YA because someone said I would like this if I was looking for something like the Poppy War but less disappointing. I hope to be proven wrong, but I think my problems TPW triology were the YA elements. TBD

Took a very long for the pace to catch up with the hype of this book. It’s fun now! Kuang always has a very interesting premise/historical context though, so I am curious how an author could provide enough exposition to have a rich plot/conflict that isn’t a bit slow in the beginning? Are my expectations too high?

Fun premise! Much to ponder. I’m a sucker for a ponder set amongst a group of friends who just want to be happy not at the expense of their conscience. Makes me wish I had the discipline to make learning languages my side quest for the next year, but alas, I am myself.

This thing is a textbook. Eye opening for sure but also just not a casual read in the slightest lol. Ive got less than 2 days left in my audio loan so I’m trying to blast through it

1) this book is dry but not as much expected, 2)I’m doing the auditory equivalent of scanning the book since there are SO many historical figures so it’s hard to keep track without taking notes or reading the names as I hear them, and 3) corporate/financial/colonial conflicts of interest and weird/violent Cold War sentiments/motivated actions are pervasive in this period and probably now. Just gross interference