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3.5 stars. Some interesting bits of mythology and lore but so very many (long) quotes from Pliny.

DNF at 30%

“My homeworld never felt like home. Just because you're born someplace doesn't mean you belong there, or that you have to stay there forever. We live in a big galaxy. We're citizens of an alliance of worlds. Shouldn't it all be home to us?"

“I just put my arms around that boy, who would be a man soon enough, who would be so far behind me that looking for him would be like scanning the sky for a single star, and I held him. I held him like I was never going to be asked to let him go.”
- Toby, referring to Quentin

Slowly, piece by piece, she went through the full dissection until there was nothing left unpackaged or unlabeled. Not even bones.

... when we read such histories, we must always be asking “whose history?” And “for what purpose has this history been written?”. 🎤