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Okay, damn. That was quite a way to end Part One.

Ramakrishnan almost lost me in the middle with some heavy science parts, but now I’m learning that transfusions of young blood into older mice actually help them??

Also, he’s not too keen on the folks freezing their bodies and brains, but damn it’s fun to read about

I love how morally complex this book (and whole trilogy) is

Voting in the Opening Round of the Goodreads Choice Awards is my favorite. I only vote for books with an absolute 0.0% chance of winning and I feel so good about it!

I hate to stop this close to the end, but it’s a loooong final battle

Max Gladstone writes like he knows he’s clever and somehow I find it delightful instead of irritating, what a treasured miracle!

Was going to take a break from book club picks for a while, but how can I skip this one??

Trying to get through this before an author event for the NEXT book in the series… Good thing the story is action-packed and it’s super fun to see the gang all together!

We’re only getting to the first kiss just now…!

Ho hum, this is not moving as quickly as I’d like. 🥱

Romance Book Club for November 2025... Let's see how the "gay knights" theme pick turns out...

Holly Black named the nonprofit I used to work for - the Drug Policy Alliance - in this book!!! A wealthy character, who is good (at least so far), is described as having donated to the org. How freaking unexpected and cool!!

This is soooooooo good

What a fun blend of approachable prose about history and speculative stories about people within these time periods!

If your library hold on the next Singing Hills Cycle novella comes in on pub day, you drop everything and start reading it. I don't make the rules

YA'LL I BARELY STARTED AND THIS IS TREMENDOUSLY DELIGHTFULLY MESSY ALREADY I LOVE IT

Trying another Ali Hazelwood by my own choice. Let's see how this goes...

The nostalgia re-read continues...

Next up for the Romance Book Club... Gotta love it when the title nails one of the tropes!

Learned about East coast kelp farming & the Green Wave org

In the mood for some '80s dystopia

It does not take "big time" to read this book... I expect to be finished with it by the next time I pick it up. It's a fast read.

Just finished a chapter that reminded me how this dude Ptolemy developed an intricate and WRONG theory of planetary movement in like 100 CE…and it didn’t get corrected for a full-on *millennium and a half*. (Shoutout Copernicus, Galileo, and an unassuming British dude, Thomas Harriot!)

I know it’s a misnomer, but this has got to be a huge contributor to why we called it “the Dark Ages.”