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Now we’re rolling

I’m very invested in Dumai and her future, frustrated by Siyu, and I feel bad for Glorian. I forgot how good at keeping you hooked and invested Samantha Shannon is

Siyu WHY

Reading the prologue so I can read a bunch more this weekend; trying to get into my big-book reading era

I forgot how truly charming this book is to read as a former 1996 BBC Limited Series Colin-Firth-as-Mr-Fitzwilliam-Darcy diehard. I would 100% go to Austenland, with only a little bit a shame. A smidge.

Oooof Carolyn

It’s like Babel, Ninth House, and a little bit of Deadly Education. This will be my second R.F. Kuang book, and so far I think she really really likes academia. It’s good, and if I wasn’t tired I’d still be reading.

Confused because it feels like the big climax has already happened, but we have 70 pages left??? The end is slowing down

What a bunch of turns I never saw coming. I keep flip flopping, do I love or hate accused serial killer Mankato Kajii? There are some things I’m like yeah, no that’s right and society is wrong, but then some parts of her are just such a big NO.

This book gives me similar vibes as the Netflix show Inventing Anna, it’s just way more intense and thought provoking

“Falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.”
- Joanna Macy

“In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything.”
- Jane Hirshfield

“…by living her life the way she had she’d been hurting her mother Mizushima, Reiko, Makoto, just like her father had once done her? By treating himself badly, he had accused the people around him.”

Girl be EATING

This book does a great job of convincing you something is right and true, only to then offer an opposing viewpoint or another perspective to consider. Every time I read I flip flop between liking and disliking Kajii as a person. There was a moment where I was like “no way she killed those dudes” and then another moment where I could not be convinced otherwise.

“Why is it that with nobody to watch over them, men can’t stop themselves from falling into disrepair? And that disrepair is then looked upon kindly and excused by the world, seen not as a failure of personal responsibility but something poignant and tragic.”
- Rika