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incredibly unsurprising but still harrowing that 2 of the translated books i've read this year which are considered classics by their respective countries were US-funded propaganda, this one (funded by the US to write anti-communist propaganda) and 'the beautyful ones are not yet born' - ayi kewi armah (work supported by a fund revealed to be a cia front) knowingly and unknowingly. sickandtwisted!

sooo fucking delicious and petty but I am starting to wonder where and how this will end

“. Publishing picks a winner—someone attractive enough, someone cool and young and..let’s just say it, “diverse” enough—and lavishes all its money…on them. It’s so fucking arbitrary…Meanwhile, I’m just brown-eyed, brown-haired June Hayward..” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

George: I’m numb enough and I don’t mean by liquor, though maybe that’s been part of the process - a gradual, over-the-years going to sleep of the brain cells- I’m numbed enough, now, to be able to take you when we’re alone. I don’t listen to you or when I do listen to you, I sift everything, I bring everything down to reflex response, so I don’t really hear you, which is the only way to manage it.

holy fuckkkk

ok so officially DNF’ing this :((( hate doing this esp to a non-fic book but I simply don’t care enough or have the attention span to read this. this book is not badly written in the least but it is so dense and I’m finding it v difficult to get through, it’s not incredibly approachable. Will possibly revisit this at a later stage :))

slowly but surely making my way through this and loving it, completely harrowing! dutch bureaucracy is hell on earth

the wait between episodes is too long and nothing else is curing my streak of mediocre reads in a reading slump , YAOI hockey cure my depression

holy dense as fuck book.. this is going to require the summoning of every last braincell I have. also already v interesting but deeply challenging due to me not expecting how much of this is about religion specifically Calvinism, protestants, Catholicism and Puritanism

this is v cute, love murderbot as a character, v humorous + love a found family trope, but i literally historically couldn't give less of a shit about sci-fi books and this is by far the most sci-fi thing i've read so idk why i was expecting this to break that fundamental aspect of my taste

incredibly stereotypical with nothing sticking out to establish it as original so far…. feels almost dated and entrenched in its chronological format and direct address writing style

think imma have to diagnose schwab with a severe case of yap-patitis, yap-pology if you will. why the fuck is this book so long?? just 50-100 pages shorter I beg

does v.e.schwab know there are other continents that are not europe that exist?

extremely gay

katabasis alice daughter or victor frankenstein son? (that’s a real fucked up family but so is this pseudo-incestual situation that’s going on rn)

also. plenty of racist crumbs so far but like what did I expect a book about “exploration”/“explorers” to be.

sometimes i'm like "classics are far more approachable than how other people, particularly non-readers perceive them, most of the time they were written for the common audience bla bla" and then i open what is apparently a book less than 300 pages and it has a chronology, introduction, notes on the text, 2 other separate introductions, a preface, 3 different appendixes and a notes section. so. mb i guess.

mary shelley the original nepo baby let's go!!

got gifted this back in high school but am reluctant to donate this to the local community library thingy w/o reading this so giving it a 100 page chance! i'm not into these type of books anymore + the repeated allegations of tiffany d jackson being a zio is not helping BUT let's see!

ewwww but also :((((

had a bit of a tricky time in the 1st 20 pages adjusting to the writing style + non-linear format, now absolutely loving it and all the references I can see to the original hamlet <33

what could possibly be the point of this book

genuinely, what is bruv going on about

quite a few books this year have really reinforced to me how the absence of editors in the publishing industry have eroded the quality of books and it's looking like this one is an example of it unfortunately.

i should note I am finding this incredibly repetitive. that doesn’t make it bad because the writing of it is good. but it is starting to feel like hey maybe this could have been 50 pages less.