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for onc ei've remembered to reread this around christmas! it's as good as it always is <3

word of warning to audiobook listeners. Just skip chapter one. It's 5 minutes of binary code being recited.

I absolutely adore this so far. Aly and Josh are hilarious, I adore their banter and their chemistry!

QUITE good but I'm not in the mental state for this book presently.

Struggling a little with this one. Good ideas, but confusing world building and it's clear this is an early authorial work. Pushing through regardless!

Still one of my all time favorite books.

mildly annoyed at several pages devoted to cotton and the slave trade in America, vs far fewer devoted to the silkworm and surrounding spheres of influence in China.

Not saying I wanted less devoted to cotton (traced back to a SINGLE genus that existed in Africa well before people — neat! the conversation on how cotton fueled the American slave trade — important!) but rather more time devoted to the silkworm.