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“…but why did these anarchist women have to write so much?”

After watching three seasons of Son of a Critch only to pick up the book and find out Patrick actually died when Mike Sr. was a kid was devastating.

1. this book makes reading the novellas soooo worth it.
2. fayiz is back!! <33

it is unfortunate how much duarte sounds like duterte

what a beginning, dang. your parents are gone, the one woman who cared for you died of the plague almost immediately after you were cruel to her (and she made you porridge while dying of the plague?!?), everyone else is dead, and you have a mysterious illness so you can't walk... god bless brother luke bc otherwise robin would've had a really awful death.

first time James S A Corey used meters instead of kilometres! a victory for everyone actually used to the metric system

i am struggling to finish this despite finding it valuable because of some of logical inconsistencies/choices such as: hayoun's decrying of race science a few pages before saying white people's biological predisposition to megalomania is not not-true just not universal or describing the levys as "priestly class in the temples of biblical canaan" as if there never was a kingdom of israel or temples with kohanim?

i’ve never been so emotional over reading about a rabbi with a thorn in his paw

i really wish they were more female characters though.

that puritan paragraph should’ve been cut

“She knew that people got murdered at this motel, but she liked it there anyway” took me out

just finished part two. no one talk to me.

i was really into it and like blazing through it until the shiraha stone age rants became multiple pages long. i feel like i am really going to have to push through this next bit.

honestly went what the hell after the bit about her dad whispering god’s name in évike’s ear

the soundscape herzog constructs is so delicious i want to chomp down on it

Ok, I really teared up when Évike talked about learning hebrew and hearing the story of Purim

AH i was not expecting that

holy shit now that is horror

in love with the way that tantlinger can use prose and word choices to really encapsulate both the genre and the prose. the tension between the flowery prose of the protagonist’s inner monologue and the dialogue is fantastic.

murata will be so readable and then you get to a bit and you’re like hmm

“His heart aches. You broke his heart. He’s miserable, and sings about how everything makes him miserable. The meat industry, it makes him miserable.” this vague description if morrissey and the smiths made me internally guffaw

Y’all I didn’t expect to find this at the library today. I am so fucking hyped. Just then opening barber scene had me mesmerized.

First chapter in and there’s nothing more than a throwaway line about bisexual being used to refer to “hermaphroditic plants and creatures”. No mention of eugenics or race science in 19th c sexology re: bisexuality and “psychic hermaphroditism”. The use of creatures and entire erasure of intersex people… Disappointing. I don’t know if I’ll like this work.

“snakes were as low to the ground but they knew themselves to be dangerous”