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Well, I didn't think the stereotypes could get more comical, but lay me down and fuck me gently with a chainsaw, here we are.

As humans, our evolution is entirely dependent on one bacterium's failed meal.

Yes, there are limits to the true effectiveness of both escapist literature and retail therapy, but goddamn if I'm not glad I can partake in both after my first bout of transphobic harassment in a public bathroom.

So many towns razed to the ground, so many nations exterminated, so many millions put to the sword, and the richest and fairest part of the world turned upside down for the benefit of the pearl and pepper trades! Mere commercial victories! Never did ambition, never did public hatreds drive men, one against another, to such terrible acts of hostility, and to such miserable disasters.

Oh boy, just how deep does the objectivism rot go in this I wonder.

Well, the time has finally come where GRAmazon has gone so hard with the privacy invasion that I can't even load a bookpage with the most basic of adblock turned on. Talk about cursed horseshit.

So it looks like my copy was a casualty of the family estrangement. Going to hold out for a proper physical copy, but I'm not unduly concerned about my ability to review this without the usual ripped up receipt breadcrumbs.

Tis the season.

Wake me up when Heathcliff isn't white.

...This simplicity was, in fact, the unimaginable luxury of a lucky man in a country of plenty. Of a man who has newly arrived, unshadowed by the history of the place he has arrived in, so long as he doesn't try to learn it.

Can't believe it took me this long to start thinking about Middlemarch (in a good way).

The nights were so black they purified the mornings, and when these mornings drew gold from the nocturnal cistern, Babayaga was waiting.

Sometimes I see a review and have to go into the user's profile to compare books just to see if they truly are as annoying as they sound.

I put the first hold on this at work on the strength of a nostalgic whim, and now there are eight people behind me who decided to lift their gaze from their white murder mysteries. All that's left is for me is to decide how much to abuse my circulation admin privileges.

It is a very poor father that has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance — always supposing that this can be called affection at all.

I am not so much afraid of a muleteer's gambling as of his being a fool, and I would rather have a cook swear than be incompetent.

I admit, I went into this hoping for something to turn my brain off too, but this is still a bit much.

Love having to technically hack this site just to compare books with certain users, but god forbid we cut back on the ads.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall.

[Montaigne] had seen himself in comfort, and in the company of his books; now he found himself among [others], in strange society, traveling through unfamiliar scenery, and often in severe pain. All this gave him fresh means for self-examination.

"Everyone is potentially one of those people, Governor," I replied. "It's best to learn that before you do something you'll have trouble living with."

Rest in peace, Assata Shakur.

The word 'cozy' is too consistently conflated with 'capitalist' (property inheritor/owner, small business 'creator') in advertising culture for me to trust it anymore.

Holy mother of balls, Maugham's a regular Mephistopheles at times.

Some pleasure to be had from the fact that this is a 60 year old paperback that came out while the author was still alive.

I fear writers; they want to go too deep and mess up the clear stepladders to success. I cannot see myself being this sort of person.

Between starting radiation and finally getting my first cat as an adult, my reading has tanked hard this week, but dealing with the former would be a hell of a lot worse without having the latter.

'Want a chance to win free books?' Sure, I'm going to attend the next meeting of my local library board and convince stakeholders to give the library more money.

Ahh, yes. I certainly had been a masochistic fool (as I so often am) to not begin this immediately after finishing its predecessor. May I not make this mistake again.