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It's so good. This might be one of the best books I've ever read.

Got a feel for the blackwood-lovecraft algorithm pretty quickly. Not a fanatic about it, but I don't mind. It's important to read since it was so integral to horror. It's the twin peaks of 19th century literature/media.

Conflicted about how many stars to give Iron Widow tbh. Collecting my thoughts now. My book is heavily annotated. This one may be the debut essay of the sub stack.

Debating adding all my manga reads from 2019 onwards so I can feel happy at big numbers

Iron Widow so far: speaker's monologue gets grating and rhetorical. Pages upon pages of belligerence that's cathartic and probably therapeutic to write down and expunge your mind of, but is exhausting to read. At times feels like a trauma dump. One's stores of empathy are not limitless. kind of wish Zetian's family wasn't abusive. The literary complexity abounds in doing so.

Waiting for apothecary diaries new chapter

oh traveler

Reading

why read lot word when small word do trick

Depressing yet strategically, sardonically funny. The hopelessness of it all just hits you like waves of nausea after a gut punch. I love me a storyline that loops back to the beginning. Good food for thought about the cruelty of colonization.

Labrynth bookstore my beloved