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"TONSILSTONESPUNKSPLATTER666!" by Rain Corbyn

I do like revenge.

"The Flensing Lens" by LC von Hessen
Perfect length and terrifyingly gross.

Just read the introduction and I've got chills.

I'm on chapter 2 and I'm already emotional.

"Justice is on your side, but the land is in their hands."

I'm feeling very protective of Piranesi after today's reading...

'one contemporary book called it "the Belfast syndrome," a malady that was said to result from "living with constant terror, where the enemy is not easily identifiable and the violence is indiscriminate and arbitrary." Doctors found, paradoxically, that the people most prone to this type of anxiety were not the active combatants, who were out on the street and had a sense of agency, but the women and children...'

On page 35, I am totally Sparkles.

"Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real."

I confess that this one isn't giving me the best first impression.

"We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out..."

Therefore, it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.

The deathless can't play our little genealogical games. Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, I shall always choose to see.

Ah snap, I'm dramatically behind in my challenge all of a sudden.

Finished Rhadopis of Nubia
I felt very distant from this one. There was a love story but I didn't connect with either party. Mostly there were political machinations which were interesting. I was a little disappointed overall.

Finished Khufu's Wisdom. Very interesting. Very political.

In which I discover that, yes, they are two different men but they have two women in common.

In which socks are decisively blackened.

In which Seryozha really is the victim here.

Quos vult perdere dementat
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad.

In which no one in this relationship is happy.

"Why do you keep fidgeting, why don't you go to sleep?"

Confession time!

Part 2 done!

Anna hanging with her other man in all the nicest places...

Day 2!
Done with part one.

Day 1!
Husband is having an affair with the French governess! *gasp*

Listening to the book-on-CD for Popsugar 2017.