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I've been curious about this book for a long time and I'm excited to get into it--

I got to the part where this book decided to just point blank shoot me in the face >_<

I'm probably going to move through this quiteeee slowly, as it is very long and dense, but the first excerpt from von Krafft-Ebing was already about a Hungarian (what we would modernly call a) trans guy. (!!!!!!!!!!)

My last detour, Charlie. I SWEAR!!

I'm going to get back to you, Charlie.

This book is keeping me afloat right now. I escape into it for 30 min every day. It's so great.

We're reading it!!!!!!!!!

I've discovered this writer and now I am luxuriously moving through their catalogue. : OOOO

I'm reading SEA-WITCH!!! I've been meaning to read this forever and I'm v excited about this.

I think I'm reading this in the most Magic Mountain way possible, so with an almost two year gap picking up from where I last stopped off...

The PROSE in this though. So good................

Really hoping to make this my last book of 2024!!!!!!

I've wanted to check out this author's work for a LONG time and I think she may have the typa problematic situations that I really like. I am curious to see...!

Eww why am i reading ten books at once i fucking hate this >_<<<<<

I am moving through this, it's just quite slow, because I try to learn every third song aha >_<<<<

"Being a songwriter is about picking up the baton, holding it for a while, and then passing it on to someone else."

It's getting crazy in here....

Ok, if you're reading this, you need to go add this to your to-read, I'm so serious.

Gray leans into the guy who should NOT be writing about women so well, he leans himself right through the other side.

Also, a LOT of sentences like this:
"..." he said admonishingly. I'm like PLEASE MAN. I'm gonna have a stroke! Just say "blah blah blah," he admonished. "...." he said censoriously. (Me: has an embolism.)

Man, sometimes I wish I could turn the old editing melon off. :/ I am enjoying this book, but can't lie, find the writing a little distracting. I get the sense that when given a choice, Mieville always reaches for the $500 dollar word. But sometimes, that sentence needs a $5 or $50 word. Caviar's cool, but sometimes your writing needs a cracker. You feel?

I'm dating like, four books atm, and I HATE IT!! I neeeeed to finish at least one of them, but this is a great book!!!

Got a Hungarian translation. I'm a bit on the fence (the fussiness of English works pretty well with this text) so I might just go back, but S---- was saying the updates could take YEARS! Was that a joke? A truly Hans moment here.