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You’d think by this point the narrator would have settled in to the proper pronunciation, but no: he longs to return to “oreGONE” and now often does so. I think the key is that even when he gets the vowel more or less correct, he puts too much emphasis on the last syllable, so we always know his true mind.

The book is good. I am just Oregonian and obsessed with this pronunciation issue.

Maaaan, this audiobook narrator is trying so hard to pronounce ‘Oregon’ correctly: he’s clearly been coached! But it sounds a bit stilted every time, and an ‘Orygone’ finally slipped in. I appreciate that someone coached (or harangued) him and that he’s trying, I guess!

“They weakened. It’s human to weaken. They had their lives.”

Rereading because it is sooooo good

I love a book where the whole back third or more is just a series of explosions that were set up by the first half, and this one is soooooo expertly plotted. No wonder I reread it a lot!

Plus also Cordelia is such a wonderful protagonist.

Me rereading Murderbot to cope in a capitalist hellscape:
“Aww, look at Murderbot rewatching Sanctuary Moon to cope in a capitalist hellscape!”

Listening to the Christopher Timothy audiobooks at bedtime.

Rereading

I very much do not buy this eugenic-ass argument about why survivors had statistically ‘extra’ babies in the next decade.