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"Speak the king's tongue, boy."

"Grim take the king!" the boy shouted. "It's not his forest!"

"Well, you'll have to take that up with him. He thinks it is, you know, and he's the king."

The Waynhim are Jewish, send tweet

Dollars to donuts the author doesn't address any CIA misdeeds, either.

"He had children with Sally Hemings, a black woman he kept as a slave." It's 2020 -- call a rape a rape.

‪This is super rambling so far. (Jack the Ripper, Justinian, etc.)‬

I wasn't expecting this to go so heavily into literal Holocaust atrocities. Major, major content warning.

This novel is good so far, BUT it is really irritating / depressing how the publisher assumed readers would need so many of the Jewish words to be specially defined in the glossary.

I mean, the book is called The Lost Shtetl. People probably know what they're picking up, nu?

This is now officially a Six of Crows crossover and I am loving it.

Slowly but surely making progress on this ebook.

Boooooooo. I liked him.

“I have a gift for persuasion. I once talked a tree out of its leaves.” “Nonsense.” “Well, it was autumn. I can’t take full credit.”

"We need a linguist." Heck yeah you do!!

About time for [spoiler] to finally show up again.

Um??

Working on the ebook now.

"Yes, because I'm sure he would have told any random girl about his sisters after only three days." This line is sarcastic, but..... that's exactly what he did. This instalove is the worst.

I'm really tired of this "line between us" metaphor.

This has taken a turn that I really don't like (fangirl on a date with her favorite author)

oh shit

Okay, that's a fun twist / solution.

Got through Part II, but this has to go back to the library before I can finish it right now. (Less time for reading / audiobooks with a new baby and visiting family around.)

These twists have all been way more shocking to the hero than they have been to me.

This might be the most nuanced set of characters I've read since The Goblin Emperor. No real antagonists. Just people at conflict that stems from valid differences in outlook and priority, with warm empathy extended to all.

I wasn't expecting to love this Imperial Radch spin-off quite so much, but it's really delightful.

"You've seen what he can do. Do you think he's going to walk into Revelstone and just let them sacrifice him?" ...LMAO

I think I would like The Silk Blade better if it wasn't so heavy on love-at-first-sight. Interesting worldbuilding concepts, but hard to get invested in the protagonist.

Also, why are we getting a Gemma Doyle story next? She's a straight white girl as far as I can remember; I don't understand how that fits this collection of genre under-representation.

Having Tovah Feldshuh read the audiobook of this is such a great choice.