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The thing is, I know a lot of conservation officers. They all hunt. Like, every one of them. And Ranger Ren fishes, but this animosity he has to all hunters, it rings really false.

I finished "The Sword in the Stone", which is the first third. Really enjoyed it. Read it aloud to my child, wo read the rest independently, so this is where I'm stopping.

One tiny thing keeps bothering me.

I've always read her name "Paksenarrion" as having a short a in the first syllable. So that her abbreviated nickname "Paks" would rhyme with:
packs
tacks
sacks
or even pax, meaning peace, in Latin. This narrator reads it with a short "o" sound, so that the shortened name is essentially "pox". No wordplay on this, and hard to believe she would choose this as a nickname for herself.

Already hooked.

I'm stopping here.

I'm about 100 pages in and not feeling it. Obviously a lot of people love this book. I'm just not sure why.

Been wanting to read this one for so long. No time at all but I'm going for it anyway.


"I am heavy and light tonight,
entangled and drifting, both
at once. The city
is so full of my father."

Tamasic

"'Nice eyes,' said Malati...
'Yes,' she agreed. 'But so what? I have nice eyes too, and one pair is enough.'

First time reading this since '93. Shocking to realize that I am now almost as old as Mrs. Rupa Mehra.

"Be like tryin' to find a needle in a crack house."

... can't.... stop....

Aubrey always gets the shaft on commissions.

"All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.'

Not a Diana Villers fan...