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I'm so mad at myself for waiting so long to read this! Why have I ever spent time reading things I didn't absolutely love!

My library will only let me take out audiobooks for a week at a time. RIP me since this is 23 hours long.

I have only 10 days left before I have to return this to the library and I have only made it through the forward and introduction because I can only make it through a few sentences at a time before the cringe has me reeling.

Read this book in high school; interested to see if how much my perspective has changed.

" [...] for within him Hell / He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell / One step, no more than from himself, can fly / By change of place:"

Each chapter could be read as its own short story... I'm taking my sweet time with this one.

Full disclosure, when I began re-reading the Dune series this was the book I was most looking forward to because it was so weird all the hardcore fans of the first book, and the first book only, finally jumped ship.

Genji's lifestyle choices are starting to negatively affect himself and those close to him; something I was not expecting at the start.

The difference between 1973 Le Guin and 1990 Le Guin is incredible - Tehanu is quickly becoming my favorite of the 4 books.

As someone who reads a lot of books about aliens, I feel confident saying that this is one of the most alien-like books I've ever read. Humans are weird, man.

Listening to the audio version.. Definitely distracting and a good way to pass the time.

"and Anger too, that kindles tyranny/In men most wise, being much more sweet than liquid honey is/To men of pow'r to satiate their watchful enmities/And like a pliant fume it spreads through all their breasts; as late/It stole stern passage through mine."

“And in my tender breast I feel a greater spirit blown/To execute affairs of flight; I find my hands so free/To all high motion, and my feet seem feather'd under me."

You copy a simile from T.H. White and think I wouldn't notice? I'm on to you, Grossman

"it's not GREAT, but it's nowhere near as bad as I remember. Maybe I was being too harsh & judgemental," I was thinking. Then we got to Skyros

I've complained about this book too much to not actually finish reading the whole thing.

"He pray’d; Jove heard him not, but made more plentiful the birth
Of his sad toils, yet took his gifts."

this hate-read is in full swing now

ok, I think the love affair triangle business is way more compelling than the courtroom business, so much so that I wish this was what the entire book was about and maybe had also been written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The story has become a courtroom drama. I'm so unbelievably unenthralled by courtroom dramas, but it's too late to back out now

This is so specifically bizarre I'm enthralled despite (or is it because of?) the dry, clunky prose and segue ways into physics lectures

This is a real struggle, guys... I am not an Amy Tan fan but I also can't quit books I've started.

there's "nice" kind of nice and then there's "so nice your horses weep when you die" kind of nice

I've never had my heart pound while reading before but this is SO thrilling and SO dreadful (in a good way) at the same time. And this is when I already know what's going to happen.