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this book is, and I mean this with 110% sincerity, the only thing getting me through the start of my first year teaching with my sanity still intact

and what if I said all of these people are getting on my nerves…

me when two characters hate each other so bad and wish the other person was dead: what are we

bought this like 2 years ago finally getting around to it

brutal few pages here. fitz and kettricken’s joint loneliness that they aren’t allowed to express, burrich’s loss of vixen representing why fitz refuses his bond with nighteyes immediately preceding the brief moment of childish, innocent joy that nighteyes allows him, “I can’t do this. I can’t be like this, with you. This is wrong.” “Wrong? If you can do it, how can it be wrong?” nobody talk to me

“her ears furrow at a strange noise” her EARS furrow? HOW???

Still love stormlight but this deep into it it is starting to feel as though branderson has too many plot points to keep track of so he’s just saying stuff. oh kaladin needs to go do something? uhhhhh what if the wind was alive but in a slightly different way from how the wind has been alive this whole time and don’t worry about why that hasn’t come up until now. and it’s just like yeah brandon. What If

rf kuang told me at the begging that everything was going to go horribly terribly wrong forever and I read that and kept reading so really I did this to myself I suppose but like why would she write this

NOOOOO NOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOO I MISS THE PERSON I WAS THREE PAGES AGO WHY DID I KEEP READING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

now why can’t we just let him go missing. is that so bad a plan

OH ?

I need to stop reading on my work breaks because I’m forced to stop at the worst possible time like how am I supposed to sort multicolor paper when my found family is seconds away from crumbling to dust

I am greatly enjoying this. btw

makes me so mad when a book is like hey so this group of outcasts become beautiful loving friends! but later this will all be destroyed and it almost would be better if they had never loved one another. lol. like why do we need to destroy my hopes and dreams before they’re even fully realized yet it’s actually so mean

gnawing on this volume. metaphorically

decided I’m gonna start reading/collecting weird old pulp fantasy books

“God is, on the contrary, the one who makes people sick, who condemns people to death, for incomprehensible reasons. Jesus the healer, the listener, teacher, friend of sinners, seems in Margaret's mind to be practically on the brink of murmuring: Sorry about my dad...”

HE’S AN INCEL??????????????

“Peace so intense and complete he could weep. Just to inhabit lightly the space that is cleared for him by her tactful silence.” mentally chewing on these sentences like:

“Peace so intense and complete
he could weep. Just to inhabit
lightly the space that is cleared
for him by her tactful silence.”

or something… whatever…

this is kind of making me mad because I’m getting really emotional over what seems to just be a classic “local man refuses to get his shit together for the woman he’s in love with” story. like sally rooney what if I actually didn’t want you to make me feel empathy for him

“The physical anxiety that accompanies chess events—exhibition games, tournaments—does not bear any meaningful relationship to the events themselves, except a chronological one: it arrives beforehand and goes away afterwards.” Me 🤝 Ivan 🤝 experiencing this and choosing to attempt solving it with espresso

never actually finished a sally rooney book but hopefully I will finish this one. I forgot that she writes kind of like she’s tying poems down in the shape of a novel and also that she never uses quotation marks. I actually have no idea what this book is about I didn’t even read the back lmao

I’m hitting both of them with hammers. I’m doing it with love though so it’s okay

this reread is going to take me Forever because every damn page brings me to tears… like what do you mean Fitz used to be six years old. he’s just a baby. somebody get in there and save him!!!!!!!

TWO direct percy jackson references

millennial joke made

mbalia: and Just in case you didn’t notice my snarky tween main character’s personality was inspired by a certain demigod I will provide one ☝️ direct percy jackson reference

There is a lot of plot in this. So much plot. Dare I say an excessive amount of plot. What is happening

so far the most unrealistic part of this children’s fantasy book about ghost trains is a sixth grader knowing the phrase “intergenerational trauma”

this fantasy book has the most realistic depiction of an eleven year old boy I have seen in a while simply for the fact that said boy was easily bribed with Nike gift cards