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It’s not looking good… preparing to potentially DNF in the next 10%

if the 6th century BCE Korai sculptures were truly “pristine” they’d have surviving coloured pigment and not just look like pure marble gleaming in the sun. This is going to drive me nuts

Finally!! I’m so excited!!!

The release of book 4 next week snuck up on me! trying to fit my reread in!!

I did a childhood series reread last year to take my mind off things, continuing that trend this year… do not judge!!!

If there’s something I’m a sucker for, it’s a novel about novelists (even better, thriller/mystery writers!).

what is happening

12% in and my jaw is already on the floor

slow and steady wins the nonfiction race okay (doing about 25 pgs a day)

according to this book, the only thing worse than being poor… is being Italian

I thought people exaggerated the difficulty keeping track of the naming system in this book… I was wrong

Help I’ve been sucked into this nightmare fever dream and I can’t escape until I’ve reread them all

Have not thought about this book in 15 years and yet suddenly it was the only thing I wanted to read

The excitement coursing through me right now cannot be healthy

Why does the author think Tangier is in the desert? How does an editor not catch that?

I cannot believe the World Series has distracted me so much it’s now taking me over a week to finish a 320 page book. Who am I

Reread is just as good as the first time

Reread time let’s go

“The duffel bag containing my worldly possessions huffs an anxious sigh when I drop it at my feet” ??? oh god. Is the kind of writing I have to look forward to…

content warning: gruesome animal death in chapter 29

CW animal cruelty in chapter 10. ugh.

Oh god the mathematics/physics explanations and mentions of “entropy” are giving me flashbacks to The Atlas Paradox pls no

funny how all these “feisty, stubborn” FMCs are actually so dumb that they’ll always actively defy the only people keeping them alive? wtf??

Staying up past my bed time because I’m so excited