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Writing style so "quirky" it's giving me an aneurysm

"Freedom to vote, to control one’s own body, to breathe clean air and drink clean water, to be free from the fear of weapons of war on our city streets and in our children’s classrooms. Freedom from anxiety about health care costs, childcare costs, a retirement spent in poverty. Freedom to afford a home, build wealth, provide our kids a good education. And the freedom to simply be."

Well, I'm emotional

After reading the description of Gideon's physique, I wish she was more muscular in the illustration on the cover. Those are not two-handed sword-wielding arms.

I'm tired of MCs with overdone bravado. But the writing in other respects is very good.

What the fuck am I reading 😭 This went from a five-star read to being weird, gross, and random as hell.

I have whiplash from how quickly and how many times my opinion of this book has changed in so few chapters. At times I think it brilliant, and at others awful.

I have whiplash from how quickly and how many times my opinion of this book has changed in so few chapters. At times I think it brilliant, and at others awful.
It's almost regrettable that it's a romance, considering that all the parts that make me want to DNF it are the "romantic" bits.

Those stone walls, Celene thought, likely dated back to when the elves first built Halamshiral. She wondered if they ever imagined that one day, those walls would protect human nobility from the elves who burned on the other side.

Reading this now feels like looking into the future.

... Did I just read the most beautiful confession of love in all literature?

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."

Finally finished "Eureka"

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰—𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞—𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭? 𝑰𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏.

"They are with us still, the Greeks and Romans, even as, thrust by Saturns, nestled in Apollos, we take to the stars an odyssey of man that began on the shores of a wine-dark sea." - Merle Severy

"The perfect equal to any call of the moment is Hamlet, let it only not be for a future."

<<< It seemed to them that there had been a tryst between Beleg and their captain, which he had kept secret from them; and Andróg watched them jealously as the two sat apart in speech together. >>>

Not Tolkien writing MMM in the 40's 😯🤭

"In the twilight of gloom, darkness and evil that is encompassing and about to overthrow the world, there are still men of virtue, there is still humor, honor, courage and compassion." --- Rhys-Davies, aka Gimli the Dwarf

The heart of The Lord of the Rings ⬆️

I give up on this book. I can't