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wildly annoyed by how she keeps saying (paraphrase) "straightness behaved like this in the middle ages (so edward ii wasn't necessarily gay)" without considering or digging into how queerness looked in the time period. it comes across as defensive

the anthropologicals are NOT up to date

i do love to read about tables

already having a great time. mck has this fascinating sense of internal logic in her worldbuilding where none of it makes sense individually but it all comes together into an improbable but absolutely gorgeous whole

this is not a book you actually finish. you wander through it, opening it at random to flip through a few pages. kindle was not the correct medium lmfao

dropping this for now, it has an Argument that it wants me to follow and i simply don't have the context. i will say what i do understand of it (roughly: the british encouraged the partition because they wanted a south asian base from which to surveil the russians) sounds to me highly plausible

i am learning So Much Information

i have gotten halfway through the first (!!!) introduction and am already at the 60th footnote... the author resigned from BYU and was excommunicated from the church for the first edition of this book and yet he is still a mormon

so much has happened that i feel like i should be at least 40% through. the florentines truly got up to some shit!

i WILL be reading this for the rest of my natural life, it is fully 6 times longer than my next longest kindle book, and i have read all the sandersons

i can only read this a chapter at a time because i KEEP having to spend several days digesting thoughts. it's so good.

So far I cannot stand the talking key. The magic system and setting is cool but the key’s knowledge is so inconsistent with its background and the way it talks just grates.