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LOVING this so far

Oh boy here we go

I really don’t know how I feel about this one so far… but everyone loves it so it must start answering questions soon right???

“I realize that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unraveled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House, and all that remains will be mere scenery.”

“…perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but the flock, the congregation.”

😱😰

Good bye any sleep I’ll get tonight 👋 bc I have to finish this TONIGHT 😩 I’m hooked

I’m the Queen of reading books years after the hype. This has been on my TBR since 2019 probably, it’s show time baby!!!

This is much more enjoyable than I thought it would be!

“The Mason House of Degener. Tosas, me tike the corpse of an old monster, too strange and feared for most to approach it, much less attempt to bury it. After all, it might be feigning death or dormant.”

Ok Shirley Jackson/Hill House, I see you!

Slowly and surely growing obsessed with the South West Coast Path….

👀 I have a guess…a hunch, if you will

“In the royal palace, the doors were always opening, servants coming and going, nurses coming and going, ladies-in-waiting coming and going. Princesses were public property.
She had not realized that a nun had more power than a princess, that she could close a door.”

Ok. Girl. I’m a patient person but all of this hunting/alien species stuff is boring lol

“So she got herself a female, that skank, he thinks” LMFAO

Finally picking this back up again; my memory is SHOT, lol, I had to reread everything and didn’t remember a thing lol. The writing style makes listening to this via audio difficult imo

“It bugged me that it was blood that pushed him to look for her, not the girl. Any girl. He was the law, that was his job.” WHEEEW. What a line.

Kind of a slow start, but I’m interested to see where this goes 👀

“ It was thrilling, Ansel’s closeness, almost frightening. She wanted to the closeness in the same way she wanted to watch a scary movie, with a chattering sort of precariousness. She wanted to jump, the shiver. Unexpected bite.”

“We are all here, but we’re not here. You can try to take part, speak up, get into it, but the implicit message is that you really shouldn’t. You are here to passively absorb the brand, and then buy some stuff that signifies and cements your allegiance on the way out.

“He didn’t finish the sentence. Big surprise. One thing everybody knows about Master Prosper, he never finishes anything. Why should he? Completions are for assistance and apprentices; genius needs only to make the incredible, inspired start.

“Take the truly dreadful evil men of history, slaughterers of nations in the name of some twisted ideal. Of necessity must allow them to have had Faith (which move mountains and without which mere works are in vain) and Hope and Loyalty and Self-Sacrifice the Name of the Cause and practically every other noble inglorious characteristic in the possibly think of, except for the small matter of being in the right.”

These stories are much different than I expected them to be. Quick and funny reads, but “okay” overall

Do I remember anything that happened in Ninth House? Nope. Am I going to try to read this anyway as hope I remember? Yup.

The Scope of Possibility: 5/5

Grave Friends: 4/5

Before You Melt Into the Sea: 3/5