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This collection is so good! It feels as though Ted Chiang writes about various subjects just to have an opportunity to research and postulate on different scientific fields, and in the middle of it all is a lot of heart. So far my favourite is either the titular Stories of your Life and Understand.

Okay I'm not usually one for death tournaments but this book is making me reconsider all of that. Well written, a good amount of angst, a cool and interesting world. I'm strapped in and ready for this ride.

Listening to the audiobook and it is loooooong. I'm starting to enjoy the absolutely ridiculous accent Van Helsing has in this version, it is so at odds with the macabre story.

Listening to the audiobook read by the author on YouTube - more authors should do this! Interesting to hear the story read as the writer imagines it being read. Also surprisingly funny and irreverent.

This is an absolute behemoth of a book - both in terms of length and also scale. Going to pick it back up again after stopping for about a year. It's enjoyable but sometimes I fall out of love with reading it.

The people who sell it as a sapphic romantasy are tapped in the head - this is deffo a fantasy with a sapphic romance and that is 🗝️!

this book is so crazy good; everything from the politics to the romance. it is a bit fast moving especially for the context and I am waiting for the villain to reveal a bit more dimension but definitely lining up the next book in the series.

so far so good; it's got a lot more court intrigue than ACOTAR and seems less YA-y, currently at work thinking about how much I want to go home and continue so I reckon it's a good read.

Shredded to ribbons is permanently engraved in my mind.

As is 'bared my teeth' and just Feyre doing this little face 😬