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Qin Dynasty was all war and no fun

Passionate about words, but he's not much of a writer. His cheesy prose has become eyerollingly tiresome only two dozen pages in.

Uh, wut?

Coyote is a unique and memorable character, and a complete departure from what I expected from LeGuin!

"The sage bushes were pulling in their shadows" ❤️

Rocannon's World so far is interesting more for the education in LeGuin's progression as a storyteller and stylist, than it is for its own story. It's fascinating reading one of her earliest works after having read one of her best regarded works, published only 8 years later, The Dispossessed.

Lu Da is a fun character. I'm also enjoying the character relay format; when two characters' paths cross, the author often abandons the first character's tale to begin the second character's, then again when a new character enters, and again, etc.

The Britishness of the translation is distracting. It's hard to believe it truly carries the novel's tone as Sōseki's wrote it. Not a speaker of Japanese, I can't say. This notwithstanding, I Am a Cat is interesting and funny thus far.

I don't remember the narrator's voice being quite so annoyingly chummy.

Glad to be out of the University setting, finally! Despite dwelling too long there, the writing is engaging. I have a hard time putting the book down for the night.

Some new, fairer ways of examining grief. I'm thankful.

Note to self: Don't read this in public. It's hard to hold back the emotion, and it's even stranger to strangers when laughter follows tears.

Finally done! Ending with a translation of Dante, and that in a chapter on the conception of Paradise, was an awkward choice for a compilation otherwise organized by literary forms.

This writing, this horrible writing. I can't finish this garbage. Putting this down. I'll watch the movie for the story, so my brain won't suffer from reading this mediocre middle school fan fiction.

So far, bad writing.

Finally getting around to reading Beowulf!