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"Amazing what one can live with."
"Down in the valley, in the gathering gloom, he could see men moving over the battlefield. Already starting to dig the graves."
"Down in the valley, in the gathering gloom, he could see men moving over the battlefield. Already starting to dig the graves."
March 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Amazing what one can live with."
"Down in the valley, in the gathering gloom, he could see men moving over the battlefield. Already starting to dig the graves."
"Down in the valley, in the gathering gloom, he could see men moving over the battlefield. Already starting to dig the graves."
"Make them pay."
This sequel really made the first part feel like a mere prologue!! Every POV was just fantastic and I couldn't put the book down. West, Glokta, Ferro, Logen, RUDD THREETREES. So many amazing characters. I LOVE how the current of the plot flows around them!
This sequel really made the first part feel like a mere prologue!! Every POV was just fantastic and I couldn't put the book down. West, Glokta, Ferro, Logen, RUDD THREETREES. So many amazing characters. I LOVE how the current of the plot flows around them!
March 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Make them pay."
This sequel really made the first part feel like a mere prologue!! Every POV was just fantastic and I couldn't put the book down. West, Glokta, Ferro, Logen, RUDD THREETREES. So many amazing characters. I LOVE how the current of the plot flows around them!
This sequel really made the first part feel like a mere prologue!! Every POV was just fantastic and I couldn't put the book down. West, Glokta, Ferro, Logen, RUDD THREETREES. So many amazing characters. I LOVE how the current of the plot flows around them!
#10 📚 "Before They Are Hanged" by Joe Abercrombie
(The First Law #2)
4/5 ⭐
(The First Law #2)
4/5 ⭐
March 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#10 📚 "Before They Are Hanged" by Joe Abercrombie
(The First Law #2)
4/5 ⭐
(The First Law #2)
4/5 ⭐
"You were a child the first time the Saint of War came to you."
This was ABSURDLY good, my God!!! Just a 30 pages long short story but not a single word was wasted. I'm not gonna shut up about it, ever.
Read that! You're gonna have the best 40 mins of your week, if not month!
This was ABSURDLY good, my God!!! Just a 30 pages long short story but not a single word was wasted. I'm not gonna shut up about it, ever.
Read that! You're gonna have the best 40 mins of your week, if not month!
March 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
"You were a child the first time the Saint of War came to you."
This was ABSURDLY good, my God!!! Just a 30 pages long short story but not a single word was wasted. I'm not gonna shut up about it, ever.
Read that! You're gonna have the best 40 mins of your week, if not month!
This was ABSURDLY good, my God!!! Just a 30 pages long short story but not a single word was wasted. I'm not gonna shut up about it, ever.
Read that! You're gonna have the best 40 mins of your week, if not month!
#9 📚 "The Six Deaths of the Saint" by Alix E. Harrow
4,5/5 ⭐️
4,5/5 ⭐️
March 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#9 📚 "The Six Deaths of the Saint" by Alix E. Harrow
4,5/5 ⭐️
4,5/5 ⭐️
(finished Feb 28th)
"I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race."
I don't know what to say. The way Kang writes grief - personal and national, at that - is like nothing else I've ever read before. I have no words.
Read it, please.
"I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race."
I don't know what to say. The way Kang writes grief - personal and national, at that - is like nothing else I've ever read before. I have no words.
Read it, please.
March 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
(finished Feb 28th)
"I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race."
I don't know what to say. The way Kang writes grief - personal and national, at that - is like nothing else I've ever read before. I have no words.
Read it, please.
"I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race."
I don't know what to say. The way Kang writes grief - personal and national, at that - is like nothing else I've ever read before. I have no words.
Read it, please.
#8 📚 "Human Acts" by Han Kang
5/5 ⭐️
5/5 ⭐️
March 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#8 📚 "Human Acts" by Han Kang
5/5 ⭐️
5/5 ⭐️
It's been a while. Abercrombie knows how to write his characters, and he does it splendidly. Few are likeable but you love them regardless. To be a writer and have a Glokta in your hands...
"Sand dan Glokta... Whatever became of him, eh, West? Wherever did he go?"
"Sand dan Glokta... Whatever became of him, eh, West? Wherever did he go?"
February 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's been a while. Abercrombie knows how to write his characters, and he does it splendidly. Few are likeable but you love them regardless. To be a writer and have a Glokta in your hands...
"Sand dan Glokta... Whatever became of him, eh, West? Wherever did he go?"
"Sand dan Glokta... Whatever became of him, eh, West? Wherever did he go?"
"Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it."
This has been on my tbr for so long! Such an interestingly structured book, extremely character rather than plot driven.
This has been on my tbr for so long! Such an interestingly structured book, extremely character rather than plot driven.
February 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it."
This has been on my tbr for so long! Such an interestingly structured book, extremely character rather than plot driven.
This has been on my tbr for so long! Such an interestingly structured book, extremely character rather than plot driven.
#7 📚 "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie
(The First Law #1)
3,75/5 ⭐
(The First Law #1)
3,75/5 ⭐
February 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#7 📚 "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie
(The First Law #1)
3,75/5 ⭐
(The First Law #1)
3,75/5 ⭐
goodbye. And in such rarely explored setting/time period for these sort of stories, too! Fantastic.
"I don’t know whether I ever want you to read this, but I know that I need to write it."
"I don’t know whether I ever want you to read this, but I know that I need to write it."
February 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
goodbye. And in such rarely explored setting/time period for these sort of stories, too! Fantastic.
"I don’t know whether I ever want you to read this, but I know that I need to write it."
"I don’t know whether I ever want you to read this, but I know that I need to write it."
"Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after."
This reads like poetry, and cuts into you like poetry, too. What a fantastic debut novel. So intimate and personal, like a+
This reads like poetry, and cuts into you like poetry, too. What a fantastic debut novel. So intimate and personal, like a+
February 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after."
This reads like poetry, and cuts into you like poetry, too. What a fantastic debut novel. So intimate and personal, like a+
This reads like poetry, and cuts into you like poetry, too. What a fantastic debut novel. So intimate and personal, like a+
#6 📚 "Swimming in the Dark" by Tomasz Jędrowski
4,25/5⭐️
(I finished this on Feb 1st but forgot to post)
4,25/5⭐️
(I finished this on Feb 1st but forgot to post)
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#6 📚 "Swimming in the Dark" by Tomasz Jędrowski
4,25/5⭐️
(I finished this on Feb 1st but forgot to post)
4,25/5⭐️
(I finished this on Feb 1st but forgot to post)
"They don't stop to think that in the middle of this black hole, in this bleak, dark country where millions have died of starvation, there is also love."
January 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"They don't stop to think that in the middle of this black hole, in this bleak, dark country where millions have died of starvation, there is also love."
"The more there was to complain about, the more important it was to ensure that nobody did."
Oh what an interesting read, a testament to human resilience in the darkest of moments. Absolutely gut wrenching, but not wholly dark, with enough hope and love sprinkled in to make it all the more daunting
Oh what an interesting read, a testament to human resilience in the darkest of moments. Absolutely gut wrenching, but not wholly dark, with enough hope and love sprinkled in to make it all the more daunting
January 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"The more there was to complain about, the more important it was to ensure that nobody did."
Oh what an interesting read, a testament to human resilience in the darkest of moments. Absolutely gut wrenching, but not wholly dark, with enough hope and love sprinkled in to make it all the more daunting
Oh what an interesting read, a testament to human resilience in the darkest of moments. Absolutely gut wrenching, but not wholly dark, with enough hope and love sprinkled in to make it all the more daunting
#5 📚 "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick
4/5 ⭐
4/5 ⭐
January 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
#5 📚 "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick
4/5 ⭐
4/5 ⭐
(STA from Sanderson here were rereads, except for WaT ofc)
January 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
(STA from Sanderson here were rereads, except for WaT ofc)
(And don't be mistaken by the quote I added above - never has the persistence of light been so hopeless and depressing)
"Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence."
"Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence."
January 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
(And don't be mistaken by the quote I added above - never has the persistence of light been so hopeless and depressing)
"Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence."
"Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence."
"There is always light."
It's been a long while since I've read a book so desolate and so full of despair. McCarthy's The Road comes to mind when thinking of works that made me feel as utterly helpless. Fantastic read, amazing horror sci-fi that will leave you staring at the wall.
It's been a long while since I've read a book so desolate and so full of despair. McCarthy's The Road comes to mind when thinking of works that made me feel as utterly helpless. Fantastic read, amazing horror sci-fi that will leave you staring at the wall.
January 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"There is always light."
It's been a long while since I've read a book so desolate and so full of despair. McCarthy's The Road comes to mind when thinking of works that made me feel as utterly helpless. Fantastic read, amazing horror sci-fi that will leave you staring at the wall.
It's been a long while since I've read a book so desolate and so full of despair. McCarthy's The Road comes to mind when thinking of works that made me feel as utterly helpless. Fantastic read, amazing horror sci-fi that will leave you staring at the wall.
#4 📚 "I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jaqueline Harpman
4/5⭐️
4/5⭐️
January 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#4 📚 "I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jaqueline Harpman
4/5⭐️
4/5⭐️
"There are no beginnings and no endings. Just war."
And when it comes, it comes for all. And even the smallest acts of kindness cannot help the reality.
"We're all walled-in women here. We're being walled in stone by stone. By hunger, by cold, by fear."
And when it comes, it comes for all. And even the smallest acts of kindness cannot help the reality.
"We're all walled-in women here. We're being walled in stone by stone. By hunger, by cold, by fear."
January 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"There are no beginnings and no endings. Just war."
And when it comes, it comes for all. And even the smallest acts of kindness cannot help the reality.
"We're all walled-in women here. We're being walled in stone by stone. By hunger, by cold, by fear."
And when it comes, it comes for all. And even the smallest acts of kindness cannot help the reality.
"We're all walled-in women here. We're being walled in stone by stone. By hunger, by cold, by fear."
3. 📚 "Black Butterflies" by Priscilla Morris
4/5 ⭐️
4/5 ⭐️
January 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
3. 📚 "Black Butterflies" by Priscilla Morris
4/5 ⭐️
4/5 ⭐️