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Well the grey zone starts off very sexy in a weird way 👌👌

"Without the heat of a mouth to warm it, the tongue is cold." is such a good sentence in context.

Great mix of beautiful writing and lovely narrator so far!

"The body and its sex are relational." that's a good little sound bite 😁

Now I really don't want to ever hear anyone praising Pope Francis, tysm.

OK, wow, that's a kink... [complimentary??] yeah, weird horny stuff, I am rather into it. Not the kink, per se, that's weird, but also interesting. Why am I babbling? Is it hot in here?

Happy that he covers reproductive labor. But his solution for that is automation, which, I don't know. I like that at least it's a concern for him.

I love Rachel Pollack's writing. And this book has a great, warm narrator.

Love the bits about the intertwining of manual and intellectual labor and how we all basically could work a few hours of manual labor per day (what needs to be done, not much more) and then just enjoy our intellectual and artistic pursuits. It's not a new idea for me, but it's nice to hear it from over a century ago!

Love these little synchronicities: "Two days had passed since New Year's Eve".

Love how he makes clear (and gives examples) that there are egotistical individuals, but humans in general are not selfish and would not try to hog resources like expropriated houses or y'know, bread :P

Edmund is rather trash, I wonder if Jane will pull him together by the end for me 🥲🥲

This book illustrates so well why charity / philanthropy are bullshit and impose a very uneven power dynamic on the people who receive said charity.

Ah, poor Fanny, what a lot in life she was given 🥲 I empathize with the powerlessness she experiences.

Some of Juliet Stevenson's male characters sound exactly like Babs from The Locked Tomb. Uncanny

There's some sweet moments and lines that didn't make it into the final cut of the movie, like Elinor saying: "There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and it's final certainty". And also her mom apologizing for neglecting her 😭😭😭

My brain battery has been on low for months now, so I only guessed one little reveal in this one so far and I don't know who the killer is!

"Of course Andy was into AI; he’s able to maintain a straight face while using the word fungible, plus he can declare that crypto is the future while arguing he’s been short-changed coins at a café. I was tempted to type in ‘How do I call my uncle an idiot but make it sound constructive?’ But I didn’t think AI would have the plethora of curse words I required."

"We locked eyes for a second and it was clear our marriage of convenience had reached a hasty divorce. I’m sorry to those who love a trope: no bromance here."

Lol

Oh damn, I feel like I deeply relate to Fanny. Even with the Northamptonshire man trouble 🥲 was not expecting the last finished book by JA I read to do deep cuts

I know this movie so well that I can tell exactly what bits of the script they cut for time / budget. It is also a really beautifully written script.

I love that the producer's introduction mentions Ang Lee's 'Eat Drink Man Woman', which was just an excellent film and when I saw it I understood why they chose him to direct this adaptation. That he responded to the script by saying: 'I want this film to break people's hearts so badly that they'll still be recovering from it two months later' is such a good tidbit!!

Yesss the right to well-being for all. I can get behind that!

Also, I love how enthusiastic the narrator is.

I read this paragraph a few times and just can't... What do you mean Ernest asks another writer what an adverb is? If you don't know, Google it?? But also, considering how clever the narrator is, I just can't believe he doesn't know what an adverb is?? How does that never come up?

I somehow managed to get through most of the audiobooks I had in my spreadsheet this month, except for two, this one and another one... And I tried to decide what else to listen to, for like an hour, couldn't decide, so now I'm doing this 😅 let's catch that rye!

Oh no!!! :(

I might find the writing a bit grating, but I do think the characters, the setting, the historical details about silver mining and all that are quite compelling 😅

I don't want to be a dick and I imagine people read Canas because of the beautiful language. Buuut, I'd say too many similes and the narrators are sometimes stumbling over the words. Many sentences where I'd personally edit 😅 For example:

"Every stitch of her stance bleeding belicosity".

It feels like too much of a mouthful??

Three more hours in the audiobook and I have very little idea of what's gonna happen. But I'm not complaining, loving the journey!

Juliet Stevenson is a fab narrator and she really shines with Mrs Elton, who she played in the 90s adaptation.