lucas’s Reviews > The Wolves of Eternity > Status Update

i finally got around to preordering victorious yesterday and waterstones emailed to say that my order has been dispatched. apparently it's due to arrive tomorrow. i wont complain if it somehow arrives early, especially after the great threads preorder debacle of 2023, but i am slightly confused

had to go to london for work yesterday, which meant getting up at twenty past five to catch a train. train was cancelled and ended up getting a later one. anyway, was reading on the train and there was a scene where alevtina was on a long train journey and had a nap and i think that mustve made me realise how exhausted i was because i put the book down and had a very disjointed sleep. it did not help me

'i think youve come to the wrong place. the philosophy department is across campus. or perhaps you study religion? we do science here.' reminds me of that time in first year when people from the christian society were trying to encourage my coursemates into their marquee to discuss theology or some such and my ecology lecturer came along and said 'and for everyone who wants to learn about evolution, come right in'

every time crime and punishment is mentioned i start thinking about how much i need to reread that book. unfortunately it is one of ~10 books that i really want to reread and i have another twelve or so unread books on my shelf. dostoevysky i promise i will return to you one day

definitely preferring the morning star to this one, here we still have a flawed pov character and the characters are all written to be realistic but i just dislike syvert. which may be the point, and i may get over it. however he is just an obnoxious conservative nineteen year old who gets mad at his mum for asking him to help out around the house

this book's got me researching norwegian politics. syvert's political alignment is pretty damn obvious in the text but i was curious as to just how right wing the progress party are (very. like norwegian reform) and whether the politicians being named were real politicians from the 80s (they are)

technically i told myself i wouldnt buy any new books until i had less than five unread books on my shelf, but then i saw world of books had a couple books ive really wanted to read in stock for decent prices and that i had a discount code in my inbox. got three books for £26 so really cannot complain