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4.5 stars!

A quote that I may just have to put up in my workspace:
"Even a spate of sternly worded articles called, 'Guess What? Tech has an Ethics Problem!' was not making tech have less of an ethics problem! Aw man, if that wasn't doing it, what would?"

The incorporation of lord of the rings references into discussion of the role of fungi in crop soil is just one of the many assets of this book

Absolutely reliving my 10-year-old obsession with these books

I love criticizing Great Man Theory as much as the next person, but you've made your point Leo!

A man dying for a woman's character development 👍

Never👏 get 👏 involved 👏 in 👏 a 👏 land 👏 war 👏 in 👏 Asia 👏

So Tolstoy just read Hugo's Waterloo digression and thought "hmm yes this is good, but it really could have been 500 pages longer"

Unrestrained summer fun

Was this whole book written around a fantasy of removing Bush from office because of an alien coverup?

palimpsesttttt

🙄🙄🙄

This book is very difficult to read bc I have to keep stopping so I can highlight and mutter 'h*ck yeah' every other paragraph

J.k. rowling wants what ursula le guin has

Hmm, some of this didn't age well, but Hale is doing a really good job of recreating some classic austen tropes with a little twist

Can't believe its taken me this long to read a book about loving Pride and Prejudice, written by Shannon Hale no less.
Initial take #1: Let women be single and fulfilled!
Initial take #2: No need to hide your love for Colin Firth. We all get it.