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Okay so it doesn’t move and isn’t quite a castle, but it’s basically Howl’s castle, and Sophie—I mean, Gisele is under a curse, but it turns out it’s faced inward and shouldn’t effect anyone but her. Excellent. Ignore my giggling

I have got to stop reading horror at night.

"The story is over, it's almost over." Just in time for a traumatizing last line! 🫠

I guess it's not really a Kelly Link story if I don't end up saying, aloud, "What the fuck" at the end.

Okay no the mammoths make sense, this is good

The mammoths were a bit much but overall how is this book so GOOD

Not loving the dismissal of sexual harassment claims.

How did this go through so many hands without someone being like Hey it's wary, not weary. You're freaked out, not tired.

Every single line in this is incredible, and every poem deserves three read-throughs.

"I needed to have an emotion in private." God, I feel this

Oh my god, oh my god, this is going to be so good

"[W]hen we fail, we become free to choose what we want our actual goals and priorities to be, rather than following the expectations of others."

“Our attention is less like a laser beam (which can be pointed at any single specific point we desire) and more like a rotating lighthouse lantern, temporarily bathing individual rocks in light as it continues to spin across its surroundings.”

A group of schoolchildren is called a crocodile. Love it.

EVERYTHING HAD BETTER BE OKAY

I'm SO SAD Iris and William won't get their own book

If it turns out Georgiana’s brothers have orchestrated this whole thing—a housekeeper named Graves, even!—I am going to scream and then die laughing