Ged is slightly annoying so far. Reads like a children's story or fairytale(?) I wonder if the writing will age up with him.

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“A forest floor, the Woodland villagers knew, is a living thing. Vast civilizations lay within the mosaic of dirt: hymenopteran labyrinths, rodential panic rooms, life-giving airways sculpted by the traffic of worms, hopeful spiders’ hunting cabins, crash pads for nomadic beetles, trees shyly locking toes with one another. It was here that you’d find the resourcefulness of rot, the wholeness of fungi.”

That bit made me stop and look down, like… oh right, the ground is busy. I love how Chambers turns the forest floor into a neighborhood. Worms are city planners, beetles are couch-surfing travelers, spiders are setting up little cabins, and the trees are literally holding hands. It makes the dirt feel social, not just dirty.

“The resourcefulness of rot” really hit me. Decay is doing work. It is not failure. It is recycling, feeding, and making room. Fungi as “wholeness” ties it all together. The whole scene feels like a lesson in how life supports life, even when it looks messy.

It also nudged me to slow down while reading. Not every scene has to be grand to feel meaningful. Sometimes the tiny, hidden stuff is where the wonder lives.

This is reimagined twilight but with Edward and Jacob if Edward was a woman And I mean this in the best way possible