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This is the first time I’m reading a book after watching the adaptation and it makes me so inpatient for the twists and turns but at the same me I do like the emotional depth even if sometimes its so immature with this author

Finally got to this “I like kids line” that people rag on online. It wasn’t that bad but I can understand why people felt it was in bad taste.

So far, I do like that this book is in first person. I feel like it increases that sense of confusion and isolation that you can share with the protagonist

It’s also taking much longer here than in the movie for him to figure out what’s happening

Wier writes things like “ gentleman’s equipment “ and “aaaaaand he’s dead” and makes the character say “motherfluffer” while acting surprised by it.

The tone for this book has been set pretty clearly. Big bang theory style writing.

Reading this in between Ulysses makes me feel like I’m reading a book for toddlers.

Today I went to a book club to discuss the first six episodes of Ulysses.
I realized that being in a book club is kind of like watching a movie at the cinema rather than at home. It’s a completely different experience.
I now have a much better understanding of what is happening in this book and I am excited to read more of it

Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention but I barely know what happened here either. I also was less impressed with the writing here. But I love that bloom has a cute little kitten

Zahn does this thing where he constantly uses heartbeats to describe a length of time and I won’t lie, I don’t really love it.
Also, they finally gave us Mara’s backstory and I’m not gonna lie, it’s not compelling not really. And I lowkey got a spoiler about her and it kinda makes her character even less interesting smh

I read somewhere that when James Joyce was writing this, his wife could overhear him giggling to himself.
This chapter was pretty difficult to read and I wouldn’t be surprised if many people drop it here.
I have a pretty good idea how to summarize the first two chapters but this one was filled with made up words, prose and vocabulary that made it so bard to follow. Something about the beach? Murder?

Mannnnnn, FUCK IT !

The story has really been picking up a lot and I’m realizing now that it’s because it’s been a while since we’ve seen corny ass wannabe Sherlock Holmes ass Thrawn in a while.

Some real duds in a lot of this writing but I really enjoy how all of our important characters’ individual stories are starting to intertwine

Real shame the passive kind of attitude that the new republic is taking post Vader/Emperor imperial regime. Like go hunt them???

There’s an author’s note in this version where the writer tells us how readers often compare thrawn to Sherlock Holmes and I think that that was intentional but also I think that our author is not very smart

Luke, Leia, and Hans need to figure this out asap because they’re on whole defense and idk. I’m realizing I’m just reading sanctioned fan fiction and it makes me wanna DNF this low-key

The concept of Star Wars legends is so interesting because why is there all of a sudden a dark Jedi that was chilling on Dagobah ~20 years before Luke was there with Yoda and Yoda just never mentioned it

So far it’s pretty good but there’s a little too many callbacks to the movies. Makes me feel like the author had a really hard time writing something that felt like Star Wars so he’s using references as a clutch

Bernard is hatching a devilish plan that includes John, who by the way has a pretty heartbreaking life thus far

Harlan is so smart and cocky but very short sighted. He’s barely trying at all to try to figure out how to ‘close the circle’

It struck me as so ridiculously arrogant that Harlan felt so confident in his essentially. And then it turns out he was right to feel that way. Only for that feeling to be right too late and close to the end of that indispensability. Tsk tsk

This is a story about hatin’ ass micro managing ass bosses

Harlan is a man crazy in love!! Watch out for him!!

So crazy if the eternals are so smart and need observers to be robot like why not just get robots lol

Also in this chapter there’s the “ not where but when” line and today it’s hard to take that line seriously.

This chapter ends with a nice line about him doing this for himself not for her that I really liked

Hmm… Poor Harlan… he needs to get out more. Gain perspective. Read. Something. How could he have fallen right into Finge’s bidding… but also… is Finge behaving in an illogical way?

Maybe there was an emotional connection between Harlan and Noÿs and not just a calculation?

Although Finge’s taunting of Harlan’s belief that she’d give such a plain guy the time of day makes more sense…

I can’t really begin to understand why Harlan would be all that happy to find that noÿs now does not exist

Interesting exposition so far. We finally get a tinge of curio in that they can’t travel between the 70,000 and 150,000th century and can’t really explain why

An annoyingly convoluted first chapter. And is this setting up a romance through time? Should I kill Asimov?

It’s very tragic for Margaret to lose both her parents in this manner but what may be more tragic is that that fact was spoiled for me within the notes of the book

Very DISAPPOINTING to see Thornton speak about women that way when Higgins mentioned that a woman’s counsel was the reason he came to him looking for work

In response to Higgin’s expressed desire to go to the South for laborin’, Margaret gives this speech about how working that vocation rots your brain to the point where you can’t have critical thoughts or reflective conversations and I think that’s an interesting thought to have during such pious times

This trope of “ doing something good but not letting your crush know and then they find out somehow anyways “ is so interesting and I wonder how it affected readers and the culture at large

I’ve been reading this book for so long I right forgot who Edith even was

John is so funny for getting on that omnibus to avoid the trouble of telling the driver that he wasn’t waiting for it.

That interaction between him and his mother at the end of this chapter was so curious. To see them go to such a frigid rapport after their first real mother son bond only because she hates Margaret so much. Tragic imo