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Kinda fun. I think it's going to be hard for me to spend over 1200 pages with characters who seem to have so little interiority. I somehow didn't realize this was another napoleonic novel, and I can't help but compare it to War & Peace, which seems to understand humans so much better, and to care about them so much more.

Really good introduction and curation by Danez Smith. Langston wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" when he was only 18?!

This is fun! A well done version of the classic Lonely Kid Begins To Understand Their True Identity Upon Discovering That The World Is Full Of Magic And Danger story that I will always be a sucker for.

This is so good.

I tried to read Simone Weil but I couldn't do it right now, so I've returned to someone who I know to be less thinky and more thoughtful.

This is fine, but it definitely seems like something that would be more appealing to nostalgic adults than to actual kids.

“You can choose the local sacredness or the great one. In the end they’re the same. But not in the life one lives. ‘To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.’”

“Domination can’t be out-dominated; it must be disarmed.”

what fun!

“At fifty-six years of age, Benjamin decided that he would become more dangerous as he grew older.”

“You have invented the job, you have invented the culture, and part of your task is to fill that day, to make the job a part of the parade of a day.”

Three chapters in; this is quite good and it's very fun to be reading something that takes place in KCK, though the geography isn't really making sense to me. I really want to try to get the author to do a reading at Flagship.

I've made reading a few pages part of my morning routine, and realized that all I have to do to finish it by the end of the year is average 3 pages a day, which seems extremely easy.

breaking news i'm attempting an audiobook

I think I lost my glasses, and if that prevents me from finishing this big-ass book by the end of the year I'm gonna be in a real bad mood for weeks

Finally, a Sofia Samatar book that I don’t just want to love, but actually do love. History, pilgrimage, language, eschatology, a minor form of Christianity meeting Central Asian Islam - I am, very obviously, very into this. Should I, too, move to Uzbekistan?

this is not good 🙃

THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD