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I’ve been stuck in a wineshop for a month and I can’t get out

By my math, at this rate, I will be done with this book sometime around the next turn of the century.

I teared up just reading the prologue so I know this one’s going to bury itself into my soul

I had imagined something akin to Redwall or Wind in the Willows and I am getting: the consuming in infants (they’re chickens but still in this world they’re sentient), criminal nut-stealing squirrels rotting in gibbets, lots of blood and lying and tricking, heads on spikes (not real ones…maybe?) and a bear forcibly tonsured. I’m having a good time

This book is rewiring my conservationist brain

I read the prologue and suddenly remembered why this lady has been a hero of mine since I was 12. Put her alongside Anne Boleyn and Robert the Bruce. Cannot wait for the next 750 pages.

This book had me in transports of delight for years in high school. Beyond thrilled that after years of saying it deserves a truly great movie adaptation, we are finally getting one—and from a French studio nonetheless.