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skoobevoli

physical books almost always, audiobooks occasionally, public libraries forever!!!

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Universe Quest: Octavia Butler's Afro-Futuristic World
Universe Quest: Lord of the Rings & Tolkien's Legendarium
Made for the Movies
My Taste
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Chain-Gang All-Stars
The Silmarillion
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
What We Fed to the Manticore
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Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana
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The Wind in the Willows
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Razorblade Tears
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Science Fiction Terror Tales
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    ”His balding head was ringed by rust-colored patches of hair on the sides and in the back of his skull. His white T-shirt sported a week's worth of stains. They spelled out his eating habits like indistinct hieroglyphics.”

    Must we be overly and unnecessarily descriptive in literally every moment. Using “ringed” already implies it goes around his head. We get it, this shirt is gross. I feel like I’m going insane.

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    Thoughts from 14% -- Chapter 8

    Amelia squeezed herself. Ike noticed the striations in her arms [...]. It wasn't an unappealing sight

    Em I'm a bit confused, did anyone else find this a bit unnecessary?

    Also another detail I didn't like, is Buddy Lee saying he's capable of not drinking one day, just like that, and the next day craving a drink. After reading a memoir that touches heavy alcoholism, I don't think the author depicted Buddy Lee's drinking problem properly, he would not think "yeah I can stop easy!".

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    "The [white cop] had sweat stains spreading down from his armpits that vaguely resembled maps of England and Ireland respectively."

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    "LaPlata sighed. It came out low and long like the bottom note in a blues song."

    Eep. Purple prose is a big pet peeve of mine. We'll see how long I stick with this!

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    Thoughts from 83% (page 152)

    "Along past Lovejoy Park a piece of the old freeway was still standing...It had not been destroyed when the city was cleaned up and rebuilt...perhaps because it was so large, so useless, and so ugly as to be, to the American eye, invisible."

    Image ...ok but she's not wrong lol

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    Thoughts from 1% (page 2)

    "The [white cop] had sweat stains spreading down from his armpits that vaguely resembled maps of England and Ireland respectively."

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    "LaPlata sighed. It came out low and long like the bottom note in a blues song."

    Eep. Purple prose is a big pet peeve of mine. We'll see how long I stick with this!

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    Glad I did a re-read! I saw the movie during a 24hr sci-fi film festival years ago, and last read the book years before that. Not my favorite LeGuin, but one I will definitely continue to recommend.

    "Are there really people without resentment, without hate? she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are entirely unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it...There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps."

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    Thoughts from 83% (page 152)

    "Along past Lovejoy Park a piece of the old freeway was still standing...It had not been destroyed when the city was cleaned up and rebuilt...perhaps because it was so large, so useless, and so ugly as to be, to the American eye, invisible."

    Image ...ok but she's not wrong lol

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