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Ah!

ghost apparition ✅

After reading the passage relating to the Baroness’ affectations, i was left open-mouthed and compelled to return and ensure my eyes weren’t betraying me.

This book feels like a saucy telenovela. Easiest classic to read by miles.

I’m 50% through and I’m so done with this book. In audiobook terms, the time spent listening equals to 30 hours. Nothing really interesting has happened in 30 HOURS. This feels like a mental health workshop. There’s Szeth-super-super-autistic. Kalladin no longer sad but instead a forceful therapist. Shallan—we don’t talk about Shallan. I need to be convinced whether this is worth finishing because idk…

I pre-rate this with a five stars

This book will get a good review, or a bad one, depending if there happens to be a reason at the end she didn’t block this unknown caller.

What a opening. Why did I wait so long to start this book... so many books and so little time

“A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in the 1848, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep away, and asking why he followed those people, he received the reply, 'I must follow them. I am their leader.'”

A. Lawrence Lowell

The motive of success is not enough. It produces a shortsighted world which destroys the sources of its own prosperity. (...) The robber barons did not conduce to the prosperity of Europe in the Middle Ages, though some of them died prosperously in their beds. Their example is a warning to our civilisation.

- A. N. Whitehead

Wonderful passage by A. Lawrence Lowell, on the Laissez-Faire attitude that was held by many at the beginning of the industrialisation age—leading to child labour abuse and terrible work conditions, where still many protested any regulations(!). It does remind me of modern US Republicans nowadays. Though I’m not of either party.*

“Many men have light enough to be visionary, but not to see.”

And happy events abroad have taught us two simple truths about liberty of democratic people.
The first truth is that Liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, group or any other controlling private power.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

No more reading challenges for me

This is the best book I’ve read in a long, long time.

“His eyes found Colonel Cathcart, who was still standing erect in a grinning trance, and he rushed jubilantly and began pulling on his arm.
'What’d he say about me?' He demanded excitedly in a fervour of proud and blissful anticipation. 'What did General Dreedle say?'
'He wanted to know who you were.'
'I know that. I know that. But what’d he say about me? What’d he say?'
'You make him sick.'

Hahahaha

I’m having so much fun

I love Tor.com as much as the next person — but what's up with all these expensive 100-page books?
I want to read the Fourth Island & A Psalm for the Wild built but I'm not paying £10 for an under one hour read.

What should I read...

Now, I know where Patrick Rothfuss got his inspiration for The Kingkiller Chronicle... Inspiration is a big word, at times.

The book was 5 stars up until 80%, now it has dropped to 4 stars for me, and if it continues in the same manner it might drop by a half-star still... I’m mad because the plot is brilliant, by the climax is so badly attained. I dislike these random point of views just to provide a better view over a scene. Maybe it is because I’m used to works such as Malazan Book of the Fallen, that have master climaxes and POVs.

Amazing book, I probably give it a 4 star instead of a 5 because of one persistent issue. Evan’s plot is very well crafted and there are a lot of twists — but he keeps delivering/explaining it with dialogues, while they characters are busy moving somewhere. But the book is that good that I spent all day reading.

First blood... I didn’t see this coming.

The world building is perfectly balanced as we advance through the book. As a writer I’m very impressed.

Darrow be like "I know a place" and then go to Mercury. 😭

'You’ll feel humiliated, my young man, because, thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords if the Galaxy, you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.'

Triple plot twist in less than five minutes. I might finish this book in one sitting.

In his experience, purity was an unpleasant concept, and to imagine worlds defined by purity filled him with fear. An existence held to be pure was but the physical corollary of a point of view bound in certainty. Cruelty could thrive unfettered by compassion. The pure could see no value among the impure, after all. Justifying annihilation wasn’t even necessary, since the inferiority was ever self-evident.

I do not stand before a woman, do I? No, I fall into her arms. I change shape to fit each one, to make things snug, as if matching their dreams is the only path I know into their hearts.