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Would love to understand why my currently reading shelf claims there are 56 books on there when there are in fact less than 30. I am marking most of them as dnfs for obvious reasons

I marked books that had somehow ended up not marked as read on Kindle as read and Goodreads decided I read all of them yesterday 💀

somehow rogue protocol got marked as read THREE TIMES???

God I hate the "new" Goodreads look for books. It's so unwieldy even years in. It jumps around and doesn't look good on any screen. I swear this used to be a functional website for a bit there.

The opinions on this are so polarizing I have to see what all the fuss is about

"I'm going to play until the end of this life."
"That's a good philosophy."

"There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway."

It's not that I'm not invested in the rest of the plot, bc I am. But whenever I'm not with Anden (and Cory) in Espenia I'm honestly waiting to get back to Anden (and Cory) in Espenia. There's something about the politics of an insular community in a foreign land that I find much more compelling than the cold war tactics being used in Kekon. (I'm listening to this so I hope my spelling was accurate)

Really enjoying this so far. Trying to read as many queer books as possible this month. Quote from p.94: "And yet she couldn't say the word the book had used to describe those kinds of girls: lesbian. The word felt dangerous, and also powerful"

"it's all about emotion, Dan - the whole thing, the whole story, the whole point. Just book after book about people facing their issues head on, and handling it, and never, ever failing[...] I felt like my world had already ended unhappily, but every book I read about someone who'd been through the worst and found happiness anyway seem to say the opposite. Like my story didn't need to be over if I didn't want it to."

My god this book is so good

Y'all this is so good

Basically just started reading it when I was on break at the bookstore where I work and kept going so I bought it

She legit just said "holy crow". Out loud. Also it can't be more obvious that SM genuinely thinks she's a feminist, and that's... I don't know, it's a little sad.

Like The Great Hunt, in that I'm also reading that at a glacial pace, but also very different, in that they share nothing else

This book is taking fucking forever

Oh my god what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck this is so much what the hell

Ughhhh rand is so annoyinggggg

I am once again baffled by my previous beliefs about this series. This is such a fucking fantastic book. What the fuck

Not as egregious but you know what 8 cases of "That's normal. Right?" is also fucking exhausting