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Author has written the unintentionally apt phrase 'a world that was cognitively uninhabitable'. I am sorry for dragging you all along on my hate read journey.

This is toil.

I just need to count this one or I'd be inclined to give up.

I'm struggling with this one. I mean partly I stopped to read 1 book I had been anxiously waiting for and 1 that's for book club. But mostly the premise had a lot of potential for a high concept sci fi book and mostly it's a kind of dull literary-ish fiction that idly mentions the scientific conceit occasionally.

Reread for book club

Lawns are racist.

Library missed buying number 3 and I have to return this soon.

I am only finishing this because it is for book club.

Does nobody, nobody think about "show don't tell" anymore?

Damn the sunk cost fallacy.

It is possible to write a story with social commentary that doesn't signpost it constantly. If your metaphor stands then you shouldn't have to explain it to me.

This is kind of long and needs editing but maybe I also just lack focus of late.

I think I am maybe tired of unsympathetic protagonists.

Gosh this is fun!

Listening to the audiobook. Maybe a little confusing so far but good tension.

If you're going to set a book in North London in 1866, you should know enough to not have the characters decorate for/celebrate a contemporary Halloween.

A re-read for book club

This is an audiobook, but I find I am listening intently so I will count it. A bit silly but in a pleasant way.

Reread for book club

Listening to the audiobook mostly for Adjoa Andoh.

This is very poorly edited. Not just the usual repetitiveness (though it is also plentiful), entire word for word sentences appearing on the same page levels of poorly edited. This is likely a skim-read.

I might not finish this. Too ridiculous and maybe not in a good way.

So listen, I did consume all the audiobooks for the intervening books in this series, but I didn't track them because I am an inattentive audiobook listener and so can't feel certain I got everything. But the wait for the next audiobook is interminable and so here we are.

These stories are killing me. I can only do one a day, lest my heart fracture to pieces.

I'm not sure how I picked up the young adult version but the introduction doesn't seem at all pandering so I will stick with.

This is a no judgement space, ok.

No solicitation. No visitors. No quests.


It's become a mantra, an incantation, a lullaby.

A thing that makes me preorder books...

Ok yeah, no, I can't manage that right now.

This is going to be a placeholder for both Exodus and Children of Glass, because the former is too short to count for a whole book.

These stories/excerpts are definitely variable in quality but I just read "the three story bungalow" and ... Really? No editors? Anywhere?