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Slow reader. Gormenghast knower.

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I just finished Witch King, by Martha Wells. It was fine. I liked the worldbuilding. The ending kinda fell flat for me 💙📚

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I don't really listen to audiobooks, but the dad from the vvitch should do horror or fantasy audiobooks 💙📚

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6:52 AM brownie

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Witch King, by Martha Wells

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Ugh, even once would be a little much of that

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Lots of furrowing as well

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People are always lifting a brow in this book 💙📚

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My elderly dog can't hear thunder anymore, so maybe he won't be bothered by the fireworks

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I made the brownie batter. I know there's raw egg in it.

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Wow! This is a lot! Thanks!

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I wish Libby had more history books written by historians 💙📚

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I haven't read Wodehouse yet, but he looks like someone I would enjoy

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I sampled Fourth Wing from Libby, but I wasn't feeling it. I might try the others

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I might check that out!

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My two main genres are fantasy and Catholic detective novels. There are plenty romantasies, not sure about the other

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I'm thinking about reading a romance novel, a genre I've never read and don't expect to enjoy 💙📚

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Legally, if you see a a typo or a grammatical mistake in a book, you are allowed to kill the author and take their place

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Every time the book I'm reading switches timelines, I just put it down, and it's a struggle to pick it back up again 💙📚

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I tend not to read a lot of current books, but I just started Witch King, and it does that. It kills the momentum for me

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I know it can be done well, but I just don't like when books bounce back and forth between the past and the present 💙📚

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Free drag queen name: Trixie Hobbitses

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The Blacktongue Thief, by Christopher Buehlman?

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This turned out to be an advanced technique for them

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I only taught for one year. You deserve a raise wherever you are

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This happens a couple time in Gormenghast. In an otherwise completely fantasy setting, a character will mention Christmas crackers or Virginia creeper

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Reminds me of the year I taught 8th grade English. Some kids simply would/could not read more than a sentence at a time 💙📚

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Cool, like Fahrenheit 451 bit where they compress all of Shakespeare into a single pamphlet or whatever. Not a sign societal decay at all

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All it needs to do is follow the rules it establishes for itself. Beyond that, let's relax people

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If I try to read two books at the same time, it'll just take twice as long

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I don't care where the dwarves get their food from, or whatever

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I can't express how little I care about realism in fantasy (or sci-fi) books 💙📚

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Father Brown seems weirdly unbothered by all the murders around him. He's always fucking around, like they're all fun little novelties 💙📚

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I love to hail people with an avuncular jocularity 💙📚

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Okay, now do a challenge with explanations 💙📚

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I don't know why I didn't expect there to be a lot of racism in The Innocence of Father Brown, a book written by a British white guy in 1911 💙📚

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every other character was like, "well, we all like blackface."

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Whelp, Father Brown did blackface. Damn it, early 20th century! 💙📚

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Father Brown is just a Little Guy, a proto-Columbo 💙📚

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I avoid it in my writing. There's usually a better way to get the idea across

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Reading The Innocence of Father Brown because apparently "Catholic detective" is one of my favorite genres. 💙📚

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My reading pet peeve is the phrase "had had." Like, "He had had that shirt for a decade." I know it's grammatically correct. I just don't like how it looks/sounds 💙📚

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I feel like the "speculative" modifier doesn't really add anything by itself. In the WWII example, "alt-history" would give a clearer picture

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Is there a good reason to use the term "speculative fiction?" It seems like you only use it if you think it's too cringe to say Sci-fi or fantasy 💙📚

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