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My experience reading this book:

This book is so strange...*giggle*...*reads footnote aloud to husband*...what does this word mean?....this book is good...but strange...but good...*repeat for several hundred pages*

I am loving this book so much. I am also glad I'm reading it electronically so I can easily look up the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Through section 93

Murderbot is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

I love books like this, with all the seemingly unconnected stories and mysterious symbols and a fantastical world you can only see if you squint sideways.

THIS IS SO GOOD READ IT RIGHT NOW

So good!

I love this so much that I just closed the book. If I hadn't, I would have finished it all tonight and I want to savor it over a longer period of time.

More books needs the characters arguing with each other about what is happening in the main text as marginalia.

Barely into the first story and Charlie Jane Anders takes a dig at romance novels, shelving them (literally) on the misogynistic half of the bookstore, representing a conservative America, with books on self-reliance, war novels, and Ayn Rand. Let's stop taking pot shots at romance novels. It's a genre written predominantly by women, for women, featuring women who get what they want, and good sex is only part of it.

I'm finally back to reading this and it's so good. I love T. Kingfisher's work.

If My So-Called Life were a book instead of a TV show and rebooted for 2019, The Infinite Pieces of Us is what you would get. The characters map over pretty seamlessly.

Well, I want to slap her less than I did in book two, but I also feel like she isn't growing as a character. Her entire life revolves around her relationships with other people and I don't feel like she's doing anything for herself. It's all about going to college with her boyfriend and planning an ridiculously overdone wedding for her dad, which he doesn't want. Dump Peter and go to culinary school, Lara Jean!

this isn't depressing at all...

I really need to get back to this. It's really good but I got sidetracked.

Mary Oliver is one of those authors that o have to read in a physical copy, because I want to underline, and write in the margins, and ruminate over her words. I know that I will be a different person - a better person - at the end of her books than I was at the beginning.

This is like Harry Potter as told through the point of view of Hermione Granger, but instead of getting sent to Hogwarts, she gets sent to the school in An Ember in the Ashes, but it's set in a fictionalized China.

This feels really derivative and lacking in subtlety. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue.

This is not a book that can be read all at one go. I definitely have to take a break every few chapters and read something lighter.

This is making me want to go rewatch the episode of The Crown about the fog.

I am physically incapable of not imagining the Goblin King as David Bowie.

A meaty epic fantasy. This is about an occupied country rebelling against their oppressors with guerrilla tactics while you also have several characters who have special gifts (magic?) and their involvement (or lack of) in the war. It's good, but not something I can sit down and read all in one go.

I remember reading the essay about her time at a Catholic girls school and her experiences with food there. It must have been an essay in Gourmet magazine at one point.