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"Only a boy would date somebody for two weeks and not mention it to them."
YES been there!

Spanish and Portuguese sea power of the 1490s - 1590s really isn't this guy's speciality...the Portuguese first mapped the African coast and managed to keep the info out of other Europeans hands or they wouldn't nec have the monopoly to get to Asia...

'"Kings." Pyktis shuddered. "For so long I was told they were wondrous fathers, farsighted rulers touched by the divine. The natural rule of strength, of crown, of throne - a noble thing, unlike the Empire, so unnatural and invented. But when I looked upon my father, I saw they are just...men. Little men with muddy, ugly little minds, who fall to common corruptions just like anyone." '

"Has my immunis been notified?"
"I'm not informed of that sir," said the militis.
"If she's not included in whatever this is, there'll be hell to pay...[t]his is not a threat, but just...physics. When defied, she breaks things."

Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.

"I shall NOT be weilded by a man with clammy hands!" hahahah

This book is Super hard to put down.

Bobby Darrin was in TJ Klune's head toooooo! <3

Fact Check (a pox on sloppy Editors): Passover the holiday celebrates the end of slavery in Egypt and departure of the liberated Hebrews towards the Holy Land. The Passover symbol is the lamb shank used to paint lamb's blood on the Hebrew's door to keep the Angel of Death from killing their 1st born...the book is wrong, idk if the poem it pulled from is too.

Quite possibly the narrative from here forward will be easier to read....

Idk whether this sounds less questionable in the original French but it sure sounds like he thinks there are no First Nations/Native Americans left...or their societies?? The comparison to Neanderthal extinction is...not exact...gah.

One finds it difficult to accept the analysis of who one would or would not recognize on a subway from someone who clearly spends little if any time in the kind of cities with subways...

She quoted my Freshman Cog Sci Professor!! Phillip Lieberman!!

Pages 306 and 309 demonstrate the author likely has limited knowledge of US history. I feel like a fact checker or 2 could have helped...like no Texas didn't get stolen from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War and NO we don't call it the Mexican War. GAH.

Drm editor fail? Surely the "towering sexism of many ages" is heinous/cruel, at least annoying but not boring?

re: Harvard 1790 has a large pamphlet collection "not surprising, perhaps, in view of the role of pamphlet propaganda in the recent rev. events, but still unusual in u libararies." Um...feel like the authors have a bit of a gap re the role of Boston in the revolution.

*quibbles with factoid "a scroll could usually hold only a single book from the Bible." The Torah always holds 5 books...I think technically on 1 scroll though 2 are used for reading. Ahem.

Bit of an odd way to put this..."an expression of confidence in the survival of the Indian empire, which itself then lasted only another generation, until Indian independence in 1947." Surely he should have said "the British imperial rule of India?"

The long way indeed! Just got to the titular Small Angry Planet, ~100 pages of story to go.

The trouble with the Advance Readers Copy I found in a Little Free Library is evidently the author only got through making the pictures for Part I out of 4. Every new chapter starts w a black page promising "FULL SPREAD ART to come." I'm so curious!

Yet again not doing his homework - Universities cannot use tech like Huawei and continue to receive US federal funds per operation of an amendment to relevant regulations. See 2 CFR 200.216. Ahem.

Another ding on the editors/continuity of the text - on page 195 we learn Tsar Alexander II barred women from attending Us in 1861 so Russian women went elsewhere (Chap 5). Why now in Chap 6 is he acting like this is news? And writting it less clearly?

Gah we're seriously oversimplifying RIGHT over the Missing Link and the Hunt Therefor!! And has this guy REALY not looked at US narratives of the Indingeous! aaaaaaaaaaaaa

I'm failing to see how Subsaharan Africa experienced a major change in how people studied science in the 15th & 16th c. I don't see the difference from existing tradition, or adoption of what contemporary Islamic astronomers are doing.
He's asserted a few times that a sci rev happended here but he fails to explain what it was.

Typo on the author of Tables of the Sultan...and we're gliding over why Europeans made mechanical clocks.

Holy conflation Batman! He's really struggling with being accurate and general. How did Ali Qushji publish The Tables of the Sultan in Samarkand in 1473 when his patron/co author was killed in 1449? Turns out he didn't but used data collectes there. WHY COULDN'T U SAY THAT?!?!

Poskett has exceeded his allotment of "whilst". I am ready to give him a theasaurus.
Penalty on his editors for not pushing for replacement words or rephrasing.

What should be 192 and 193 are blank. Hope this doesn't happen again.

Love the dedication: "For anybody who could use a break."