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Hawksquill

🌷 she/her 🌈 bi 🏳️‍⚧️ trans-inclusive feminist 📖 Wikipedian Lit fic, sci fi, historical fiction, classics, queer lit, nonfiction, and whatever else strikes my fancy.

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LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Gothic Literature
Universe Quest: Discworld
British & Irish Classic Literature
Made for the Movies
Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
My Taste
Little, Big
A Tale for the Time Being
Middlemarch
Always Coming Home
Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
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The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #5)
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Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #5)

The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #5)

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Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)

Children of Strife (Children of Time, #4)

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radueriel set their yearly reading goal to 30

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radueriel's 2026 Reading Challenge

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Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
Flux
Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering)
As Meat Loves Salt
The Bog Wife
The Long Game (Game Changers, #6)
The Faceless Thing We Adore
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Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis

Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis

Melody Glenn

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She is Here (Outspoken Authors, 34)

She is Here (Outspoken Authors, 34)

Nicola Griffith

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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)

David Hackett Fischer

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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Hawksquill commented on Hawksquill's review of On the Calculation of Volume, Book III

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  • On the Calculation of Volume, Book III
    Hawksquill
    Jun 03, 2026
    On the Calculation of Volume, Book III
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    It's getting increasingly difficult to write spoiler-free reviews for this series, but I'll try my darnedest! This is the third installment in a planned heptalogy about a woman stuck in a time loop, including her travels across Europe and changing relationships with friends and family who are experiencing an ordinary November 18th.

    Volume 3 has a different translator from the first two in the series, which was a little jarring for the first few chapters. The translation doesn't feel quite as fluid to me. Some passages are weak in ways I suspect stem from the translation rather than Balle herself.

    The plot, characters, and themes are still totally captivating, however. Although the genre and tone are different, the closest comparison I can make is to Piranesi. There's the same disorienting sense that the world of the book is large, strange, and incomprehensible to both me and the protagonist.

    This is such a unique reading experience, a labyrinth of words and a house of mirrors. Some moments genuinely made me gasp because I was so deeply embedded in Tara's consciousness. My mind was constantly mulling: every tiny detail might prove to be a key hint, a tidbit of information, a dead end, a figment of Tara's imagination, or me projecting my own search for meaning on the blank slate of the text.

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