Personally, I’d love to play or observe a Caraval. The magic system seems unmatched by anything else!

Now that i've figured out how to actually find the post button on mobile, i wanna take a moment to say what a great community pagebound has, and what a great site and app it is. Except for a select few, I've only met nice people on here so far, and i'm surprised with how active the community is. Idk how many users pagebound has, but i'd bet it's way less than something like bluesky, and yet the interaction on here is tenfold what i see on bluesky. Pagebound users really put the social back in social media, and it feels so nice. Thanks to you people this is quickly becoming my second favourite social (number one will always be tumblr, my roots on there go too deep) Cheers and happy reading!

I was kind of shocked to see that I’m almost halfway through the book because it seems like we’re still setting the story up. This last chapter is where the first truly interesting things happen outside of introducing who is who and what is what.

That being said, I am intrigued. I think it’s more so because of the vibes than because of the actually story but I’m still enjoying this! Bradbury is great at descriptive imagery and I’m excited to see what else happens to Jim & Will.

I’m not sure I love that the author is insinuating that tomatoes finally became an important food when they made their way to Europe, as if they weren’t a major element of dishes in the New World for hundreds of years prior. Sure we get some brief mention of their use by Aztecs and Mexicans, but that is more of an anecdote.

I am interested in learning how they became such a big deal in Europe though, especially considering how much people hated them when they were first introduced.