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i am so fond of them!!! sisterhood!!!!

picked up this book from seattle!! i am so captured by the absolute absurdity of this book; i love the worms i love gelsomina everything about this book is so joyful and it tickles me greatly

finished acts!!!! i lowkey miss the gospels but learnt a lot reading this one tooo

the plot thickens!!!!!

myung and laleh…

so far interesting!! a really interesting take on sisterhood. i am also prepared for my reading to completely fall off this month lol

premise is super interesting.. i hope it is weird and wonderful!!!

“Even as he spoke, a tiny man, in the exact image of G., plopped out of the rear of G., then sat disoriented on the floor, rubbing its eyes.”

im killing myself i love george saunders books

finished picking sweetgrass!! if im being super honest (hana let me know if this is just me or if you agree) the initial novelty of the book/its lessons is wearing off a little and it is taking me abit more effort to pick it up and keep reading but i think that its solely because its non-fiction and episodic which isn’t a bad thing at all. nonetheless we press on and i keep reading and learning!!

so i didnt realise that this book is “short” enough to not have chapters so the whole thing is one long scene which is quite sick honestly. narration really continues to blow me away.

guys unironically this audiobook is so awesome seriously - there’s a cast (more than one narrator) but the main narrator is so good. and the story is so fun and i so far am really liking this

OHMYGOD?!??????? i am in shock.. what even is going on….

anyway end of section 1!! who is the girl from the fiction department.. winston is getting radicalised but what happens next.. all the questions..

just popping in to say that the fact that 1984 is set in london is so funny to me like. they talk about st pancras station and i lived next to it for abit LOL its so jnteresting. its also so curious to me that in both 1984 and fahrenheit 451 they talk about burning of books as a method of keeping the population under their thumb.

i know everyone says this about this book but the concept of newspeak is really really interesting!! when you consider how language imperialism and standardisation impacts and trickles down into the ways in which we think/act it seems like such an effective propaganda tool towards controlling the thoughts of a people

actually i started this book a few days ago trying to get over the vermin-induced reading slump that i forsaw coming (because how on earth do you top that). so far i am liking the world-building!! definitely feels alot more real than fake haha very relevant in our modern day.

INSANE.. last 40 mins tomorrow…

this audiobook version of dee is so effortlessly charming and endearing i like him more than i did when i read the book the first time around

alicia dont read this potential spoiler alert

“He seems a polite enough fellow, though. This vant Passand. Reminds me of you.”
This time, the typewriter stops. The murk shifts, the candles flicker, as if the cell is taking a cautious breath. “Who?”

IM KILLING MYSELF this book is so insane

guys i have 9 hours and 20 minutes of this audiobook left its due in 4 days can i do this will i finish it in time

finished tending sweetgrass!! reading this book warms my heart la

finished the first book in the trilogy!! started on the second one and so far its ok.. im not suuper enthralled with it or anything and narrative style is a little stiff but hopefully it will move more soon

with hindsight everything is so much clearer to me. i feel like im understanding for the first time what a rock opera is and why this book is the perfect rock opera.

this book is so insane LOL factionalism and of course the invitation to a beheading was to a literal beheading

part 2!! i have completely been so happy with how thrilling this book is even on reread - so many details that i didnt manage to catch the first time and overall the world-building and plot and characters are just fantastic

i am. audio-booking as my reread. this book is so insanely good i have 13 days before my loan ends.

ohmygod?!?!?

hmm