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another book my boss put on my desk, reading this counts towards my yearly appraisal (lol) but is also super interesting!

this is me whenever there's someone in my house. isabel is totally normal actually

we're already back to ithaca?? i am never referring to a long journey as an odyssey again. this shit's easy

how am i not even halfway done and we've already got home to ithaca. i'm never referring to a long journey as an odyssey again

*speaking softly so athena can't hear* odysseus is kind of a little dick actually

athena meeting nausicaa: "damn bitch you live like this?"

wow odysseus has only just shown up

(253/1378) i've never been so rapt by an introduction before

it's not that this isn't a good book. it's a great book. but with every page i have to stop and wonder why my father specifically picked this out for me as a christmas present

fitting for how bloody cold it is today

i have no idea what page i'm on because i'm reading the collection on my kobo but i cannot imagine i'm over halfway because Absolutely Nothing Has Happened

i still don't know how i feel about the book of dust as a trilogy at all but i did help me realise that i need lyra right now.

victor hugo confirmed as having existed in lyra's universe???

well this is a dark little book

this is SO fun!!!!! i keep laughing out loud!!!! i'm charmed!!! delighted!!!!

underrated trait of r.f. kuang's writing is that she can be wickedly funny

i was going to read slowly and save this for my train journey at the weekend but it's just fun as hell

(ella don't look) gritting my teeth through the cambridge wank for what is a very fun opening chapter

it's good but i'm struggling. i can't possibly be only 44% in

i'll fully admit to skimming this one. we only got to bloody everest 300 pages in

here we go again!!!!!

it's a mark of how good a writer simmons is that every time he does a fake-out I actually think "oh good, the crew of the doomed and lost franklin expedition are finally saved!" and then i get upset all over again when it's not true

"The ebony clock concluded its striking. It was midnight. It was 1848."

so the carnivale scene was one of the best things i've ever read

stayed up way too late reading this

i wasn't expecting this book to have quite so many descriptions of women's pubic hair tbh