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can’t decide if I’m intrigued but just too busy for high fantasy or if I’m intrigued but this is just an okay book entertainment wise …..

Why was this the best meet cute I’ve read all year 😭😭😭

why’d the first chapter gag me ???

this beginning is already so much more compelling than the first few chapters of book one…..

let’s hope this doesn’t sit in my current reads list for 1.5 years like the first one did 🫤

Bennett spiraling being the best chapter and a half of this book ??? Toren coming to help again?

And everyone needs to BACK off Toren Kane cause I’ve had ENOUGH #redemptionarc

“My dad looks . . . tired, I realize. Like he’s lived a thousand lives and never had one where he was truly happy.

There’s an ache in my heart again as I watch him more closely. Mirrors. Doomed to love from afar.”

this scene alone carrying this book to the three star finish line

When they sued him, he (Alex Jones, InfoWars/Youtube recommended his vids 15million times) admitted in court that the massacre was real and said he had been suffering from a form of psychosis when he denied it. This is just one of many insane claims he has made. Let’s compare that—what is the aggregate traffic of the NYT, the Washington Post, the Guardian? All that together is not close to 15 billion views.”

YouTube had recommended videos by Alex Jones and his website Infowars 15 billion x. Jones is a vicious conspiracy theorist who has claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was faked, and that the grieving parents are liars whose children never even existed. As a result, some of those parents have been inundated with death threats and have had to flee their homes. This is just one of many insane claims he has made.

This is the business model that built and sustains the sites on which we spend so much of our lives. The technical term for this system—coined by the brilliant Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff—is “surveillance capitalism.”

“ He said our attention is being deeply altered by huge invasive forces in the wider society. Saying the solution is primarily to personally abstain is just “pushing it back onto the individual,” he said, when “it’s really the environmental changes that will really make the difference.”

“If, by contrast, you expose yourself for hours a day to the disconnected fragments of shrieking and fury that dominate social media, your thoughts will start to be shaped like that. Your internal voices will become cruder, louder, less able to hear more tender and gentle thoughts. Take care what technologies you use, because your consciousness will, over time, come to be shaped like those technologies.”

“The world is complex and requires steady focus to be understood; it needs to be thought about and comprehended slowly; and most important truths will be unpopular when they are first articulated.”

“Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switching, less sleep. We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do.”

“During slow-wave sleep, your cerebral spinal fluid channels open up more and remove metabolic waste from your brain,” Roxanne explained to me. Every night, when you go to sleep, your brain is rinsed with a watery fluid. This ******cerebrospinal fluid****** washes through your brain, flushing out toxic proteins and carrying them down to your liver to get rid of them. ”

if he doesn’t hurry up and make somethin shake…..

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let’s ignore the fact that this has been in my current reads since 2023……

my “non-fiction November” pick ….

I should’ve finished this days ago but I just can’t bear for it to end 😭

If I was rich I would literally gift this to everyone I know for Christmas 😭😭

“You are a great historian, Mallory, or you could have been. You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.”

“And I understood finally that a nation is a house with no windows or doors at all. That no matter what I did—no matter how much blood I spilled in its defense or ink I spent in its praise—it would never, ever be my home.”


wow, wow and wow…

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley sit at the same table. In this essay I will—