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Not to be like "wow the non fiction book about slavery is a harrowing read " because yes, duh, but my god the chapter about sexual slavery was almost impossible to push through.

As someone who's deeply not into hiking or the outdoors or the United States of America I need to understand the hold Appalachia and the Appalachian trail has on me.

When the executive dysfunction is so bad that being possessed by a 100 year old demon-ghost that Takes Charge of You sounds AMAZING actually.

I don't understand how they're not running to the opposite direction of this clearly cultish commune. Paranoia but only when it's plot convenient?

Love the Cato the elder hate

That's one hell of an opening chapter.

Penric must be in his 30s? Pushing 40? He's still babygirl.

It is incredible how good Bujold is at writing human beings who act like human beings.

Penric master creative problem solver.

Loving the doomed chivalrous love here. Very amour courtois, much medieval, wow.

Man this is SOOO my kind of book.

Something hilarious happened. I started the book and like, a couple of chapters in, googled "katherine arden + dorothy dunnett" and Yes, she is a fan, and yes, it shows in this book.
(https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...)

"this is the point" might a chorus yell at me but the male gazey writing is making me nauseous

Oh man I'm really hoping this is a precursor to all those female rage novels we got recently and that she's gonna chop everyone up and eat them.

I am almost halfway through it and I wanted to see where this was going but then the MC, who is an author who wrote a scifi book, kept getting recognized in the street wherever she went, and also got into the airport with an experimental device without it raising any security flag. At this point suspending disbelief is a juggling exercise and I'm too tired to play. The robot story within a story didn't grab me either

The publishing journey is more far fetched than the actual post humanity robots lol. I reached "her agent sent her updates on sales every week" and I laughed out loud in a library. I mean maybe that's what happens with some authors?

Werewolves are not farfetched but the idea that a king in this universe wouldn't marry a woman because he's gay is just confusing to me.

That scribe is SO TIRED of the king's bullshit wow.

The narrator has such a soothing voice. She sounds like a sweet great aunt telling you all about naked romans roaming the streets whipping unsuspecting women for religious purposes.

(in the tone of Fred Armisen in Parks and Recs saying straight to jail) this? Myth. This other thing? Myth. That thing you believed? Yeah never happened.

I truly hope this storyline ends with her burying that gross man under a very heavy and beautiful carpet

The proof that it's a bit young for me is that I'm seeing this from the dad's pov and thinking "dude your heart is in the sort of ok place but you're doing parenting so wrong"

This is fun

How do roman historians experience current day USA without constantly Leo pointing meme?