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The literal first scene involves the main character waking up drenched in her roommate's blood and viscera so I think it's safe to say this is going to scratch the spooky season horror itch

Get in losers we’re going to the Culinary Institute of America to take some rubes for all they’re worth at poker

This is a heads up to my GR friends that I’m jumping ship for StoryGraph! I’m going to delete my GR account soon; I don’t love the interface. I’m callalilyc on SG if anyone wants to be friends on there!

Okay I didn’t think it was possible to enjoy a Goose Girl retelling as much as I loved Shannon Hale’s Books of Bayern, but Margaret Owen really said hold my beer

Me: hmmm, I should re-read this. I wonder what made me love it so much when I was a tween?
Book: “Perry Fleming could have been any age from forty to sixty, had clearly once been beautiful and was still striking. Bright green eyes, blah blah, black hair shot through with silver, blah blah laugh lines”
Me: okay yeah it was that

Violet I love you, but that was Not a helpful sex talk

This is giving me flashbacks to when I got dress coded in high school because my shirt straps weren't "the width of a post-it," whatever arbitrary nonsense that is.

Why are all the histories more batshit than the comedies and more dramatic than the tragedies?? If anything is weirder than Cymbeline this is perhaps weirder than Cymbeline

Bless Ursula K. Le Guin for writing something that reads like sci-fi and high fantasy at the same time... truly giving me everything I want