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My mother told me to read this so we'll see lmao

Elizabeth Catlett mentioned raaahhh

why does it feel like I'm blacking out when I read this

I stg unless this book does a 180 turn from where I think it's going, it's going to get 1 star because wtf is happening

Amber carving Fitz into Paragon's new face is crazy work

no one thought to warn me about the on page rape? 🤢 idk if I can get past that honestly

Free Althea from these insufferable men

omnipresent present tense narration 🫩

If Robin Hobb is going to do one thing she's going to complicate an already complex woman

okay yes I'm sufficiently creeped out

time to get rage baited by a fictional character 👹

I am truly stupid because I heard "big ears" and thought "elephants?? elephants in the rockies??" not even considering MULES

Dimitri fucking himself over so badly I'm starting to feel sorry for him ✋

Dimitri never learned not to talk to cops

Just one giant manic episode

Incredibly old monk who's been severely ill dies. It was very unexpected and surprised everyone.

So far this book has felt like one giant gossip session and I'm loving it

Getting to the point where I'm purposely not reading this because I don't want this reread of the trilogy to be over 🥲

"The ambassador's performance betokened a major shift in the US's policies towards Israel. What we had witnessed that day was evidence of a new Middle Eastern axis in action--the armored spearheads on the ground were Israeli, while the diplomatic cover was American. It is an axis that is still in place today, over half a century later."

Every other page has me going "what the fuck? what the FUCK?"

"I started this conversation out as stupidly as possible."

well yes, Dimitri, we know.

Imagine turning the page thinking you have one more chapter and seeing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

this is getting crazy omg

Nora please let this man have a BREAK

After President Harry Truman endorsed the goal of a Jewish state in a majority Arab land in the post-war years, Zionism, once a colonial project backed by the declining British Empire, became part and parcel of the emerging American hegemony in the Middle East.

Listen.... Nora made a deal with the devil or som to keep me crawling back to these books

So far every problem has stemmed from everyone's negative amount of self worth, which is what happens when you live somewhere as cold as Russia and have nothing to eat but pickled fish /s

"The roots of what Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called the "politicide of the Palestinian people are on full display in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate. The surest way to eradicate a people's right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it."

Fyodor Pavlovich reminds me of my grandmother 🧍

the way this has been sitting on my tbr for foreverrrrrr