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Chill Out with the Stoics was so enjoyable. I feel like each little essay is becoming my new favorite. Damn this book for making it difficult for future me to review fully.

38% in the audiobook is page 123 in the physical paperback copy. It's still such an enjoyable book to meee. I'm so happy I'm rereading it!!

Each essay/story has been so much fun to read/listen. I truly love how Emily Wilson writes.

"People often prefer words, images, and big emotions over sober economic truth, even when the ostensibly frail joins of rhetoric results in the loss of substantial benefits, like wealth and freedom."

I'm just so happy I own this series. I will have to reread books 1-2 for fun later.

New words I learned: lugubrious (mournful) and pedagogical ( of, relating to, or befitting a teacher or education).

''Real fairytales are about hunger: hunger for power, above all, but also for justice, for love, for change, for transformation, for other humans.''

''The ship's owner was Vigo Nex, a man iwth a diamond set into his tooth and morals so loose they flapped when he walked.''

I read this line outside to the family that walked into the store because it's just too good NOT to share!!!!

"Two children he had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we only see the mirror of our own faults."