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I now hate all three people in this love triangle. Gah. Wish such a fun premise weren't being fucked up by also being a romance novel.

Dude, getting older has made you a whiny teenager who's probably dressed like a goth under that armor. Please step aside and let the badass 12 year old girl take over.

I am so done with the box. I don't care what is in it. Stop pausing action sequences to talk about the fucking box. I promise I will remember it's important even if you don't mention it in every scene.

Surprisingly, the cruelty to animals award goes to someone other than Jorg.

VIXI is effective as nightmare fuel.

"That American thinks yellow fever is a disease. That would be so clever if only it weren't for people like me who appear to be immune (but for some reason die young)." "Yes, isn't it great how we now know everything about medicine and there couldn't possibly be any confounding factors in your genetically inherited condition." "He thinks it might be something to do with blood, isn't that hilarious?"

I am having to do a lot of mental gymnastics to make soullessness not utter nonsense.

I can see that two glasses of wine was indeed the correct way to approach this book.

King Solomon's Ring is fab and could easily fit into the TOC of a Year's Best collection this year. Never mind that it's from 1963. That's kind of an ongoing problem with reading this collection in small chunks - Zelazny in the 60's is just better than most of today's writers. Anything I've given 5 stars to while reading this collection should be considered 6 stars.

My new battle cry is "You take the high road an’ I’ll take your wallet!"

Wow. Just. I. Why am I still listening to this?! Gah!

Erratum (non-relevant). Ekman (yes, the SPOT guy) section lists 6 elements, text refers to a set of 7 elements. Pulled the reference '72 article, there are 6 elements listed.

So, you all know how I sometimes complain that all these books have the exact same sex scene? One of the stories in this one changes it up and has a "he wasn't going to hit me hard enough to get off so I gave him a hand job" scene instead. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.

Wow. Narrator #3 sounds more like a robot than Kindle. I'm surprised she can use contractions.

Take that, pile of books I have been pretending to read.

Bill may have tricked me into doing some literature review for him. Boy with the joke be on him when he tries to work with my flawed grasp of the subject matter.

Dear goodreads,

What is a good gift for a friend who just got a job as an English teacher at a Catholic school?

Yes.

Yay!

@#$@!

Before I started this, I thought I was starting to get burnt out on the first person POV. Turns out that what I'm burnt out on is shitty writing. Which this is not.

And now for the final installment.

Look at me not calling in sick to work. Even though today is the perfect day to curl up in the library with the cat. Sometimes I hate me.

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I really should be rewarded for not staying up past midnight last night finishing this. Three meetings in one day is not a reward.

It would be wrong to call in sick. It would be wrong to call in sick. It would be wrong to call in sick.

The Misadventures of Wee Malky could have been an entire book. Possibly a more interesting one.

Ok, that could have been a lot more dangerous. Fortunately, there was no traffic at the giant intersection where I was laughing and crying so hard that I couldn't see so I just stopped the car for a minute to catch my breathe. That probably would have frightened my husband, but he was laughing so hard that he didn't notice where we had stopped. The interstate was fine, though. I don't need to see to drive straight.