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  • The Drift
    Reading Update from 21% (page 82)

    Super intense so far, i'm really into it, the pandemic/horror vibes are perfect 👌, but very graphic - beware if you're squeamish 🤢

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  • Center Ice (Boston Rebels, #1)
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  • Center Ice (Boston Rebels, #1)
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  • Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
    Reading Update from 22% (page 118)
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  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Reading Update from 40% (page 8)

    i'm not sure what page i'm at, but i finished chapter 8/20, hence why it says page 8. i'm so happy that we seem to be done with the hunter and gatherer of it all, but now that we are diving into more complex ideas and arguments, i'm starting to feel a little unsatisfied about the summaries the book is forced to give.

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  • No One Is Talking About This
    Reading Update from 34%

    Ok I'm into it... Reads like Sedaris somewhat and cackling at some of these lines!

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  • An Awfully Big Adventure
    Reading Update from 32% (page 118)

    “I shouldn’t have jumped after a flower.” He shrugged. “You love flowers.” “I doubt you would have tried to catch the flower like that.” “But I nearly fell off trying to catch you.” Hehehe that was cute 🤭

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  • The Ministry of Time
    Musings on translation, language as creation

    17% into the book, there's this quote: “One of the many hypotheses coagulating in these early days of time-travel was that language informed experience--that we did not simply describe but create our world through language…” Wow. I haven't thought about it quite so clearly as this, but this rings so true. Why does inclusive language matter? Why do slurs have power? Because the language we choose shapes our reality. Makes me think about Babel by R.F. Kuang and its portrayal of translation as a tool of colonization. Here too, our narrator is a translator. At first, I was perplexed why her skill set was selected to help guide this expat to adapt, but now it's clicking: "According to the hypothesis, the more accurate their vocabulary, the more likely they would temporally adjust [...] assimilate." How true is this? If someone starts to say the "right" words, will their mindset shift? And when we see the most powerful man in America saying the wrong words, it matters. It shapes our reality. 😭

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  • The Ministry of Time
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  • Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
    Tandem Read!

    Finally ready to get this tandem read started. I'm already liking the story so far!

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  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2
    Reading Update from 34% (page 165)
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  • Female General and Eldest Princess [女将军和长公主]
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  • Meet Me in a Mile
    Reading Update from 19% (page 49)

    Excited to see where this goes! Love a big, beefy MMC, so that's a check in the Win column!

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  • Female General and Eldest Princess [女将军和长公主]
    Reading Update from 20%

    It's freaking gore. What the f*** and i'm eating my lunch while i'm reading this f******. I don't know if this is a best idea but i'm enjoying it. 🤣

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  • Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)
    Reading Update from 19% (page 226)
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  • The Eyes Are the Best Part
    Reading Update from 62% (page 258)

    I'm LOVING how Ji-Won is messing with George. 😈😂

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  • The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
    BeTrobi Translations
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  • The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
    A note on language

    BeTrobi is a wild language. I've read this book multiple times now and I'm only just starting to understand it. For example: remarkable isn't just that in BeTrobi. A thing that is remarkable does not have a one-to-one translation. It is described *in full* as (paraphrasing) "that which will only happen once in the lifetime of a canoe which has been carved by axe and hollowed by wood and..." ((I cannot remember the rest of it!)) For example: remarkable isn't just that in BeTrobi. The word "remarkable" does not have a one-to-one translation. It is described *in full* as (paraphrasing) "that which will only happen once in the lifetime of a canoe which has been carved by axe and hollowed by wood and..." ((I cannot remember the rest of it!)) This is why we get to see Rincewind struggling to understand "the reflected sound of an underground spirit"... Echo... Gnome... Ics... Economics.

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  • The Eyes Are the Best Part
    Reading Update from 51% (page 210)
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  • Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
    Reading Update from 25% (ch28)

    This is so intense I’m in tears and my heart is pounding 😭 I just know if it’s this bad at only 25% I’m SO not ready for what’s to come

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