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The man's role was to hunt, fight, beget sons, and seek the mystery of communion with the powers of the unkown; the woman's, to bear and rear children, gather the harvest of forest and meadow, and obey the man who chose her to be the mother of his sons."

...bro 💀

Oh 👁️👄👁️

Okay but what are the odds I was listening to Take on Me by A-Ha literally pages before Carl and Donut are gonna sing that exact song during karaoke

Time to reread this for the 5th time in preparation for the release of Radiant Star 😌

Second person, my beloved

Caitlin Starling sure loves to write about lesbians going speluking in caves

Not an ICE officer showing up 💀 Matt Dinniman you better handle this right

Diving into this straight after having reread the first book and without even having checked the blurb on the back so I have no idea what to expect. It's gonna be a wild ride for sure 🚀✨

Reading a book in Dutch for the first time since 2022 let's go

No shade to Jane Eyre but it feels so good to be reading fantasy again

Buddy reading this with my bf teehee

"He wiped his hand on a piece of gunny sacking and inspected the cut. "Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch," he said. "Well, I can stop that." He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound."

This man is about to lose his hand

The strangeness that the oldest son Noah has, is definitely autism
- not stupid but strange
- rarely speaks
- bad at expressing fondness of others
- blank facial expression

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep."

URSULAAAAAAAA

Finally picking this back up again now that it's summer break 😤

"She had never expected to adore anybody, let alone to be adored" she's just like me fr 💜

Ursula give me the strenght to finish my thesis amen

"[...] but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil."

Pop Off!!

Time to reread this absolute masterpiece 😌💅🏻✨

Shoving the xenobiologist main character out of the way so I can go to the labor camp exoplanet that has ruins of an alien civilisation in his stead

The way autism is portrayed in this is actually insane (and not in a good way)

Starting with Adulthood Rites since I already read Dawn on it's own ✌️

Ursula wrote this just for me:

"Most rocks live a long time. [...] If there were nothing else to be known from them that would be enough, their long age of being. But there is much other knowledge in rocks, there are things that can be understood only with the help of rocks. They will help people who handle and study and work with them with pleasure and respect, with mindfulness."

Finished Inferno, now onto Purgatory 🔥🔥

Lord forgive me for what I'm about to read

Don't think I've ever DNF'ed a book this fast but there was nothing to like and plenty to hate. Just awful.

All the short stories in here are so good 🥺 highly recommend of you're into dragons 🐉