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Don’t mind me info-dumping about the Mexica/Aztecs and their rise from swampy, little, barely farmable Tenochtitlan and how interesting polygyny and power plays were in mesoamerican politics. Succession has nothing on the family drama in the first two chapters of this book.

Had to switch to audiobook because someone wanted the ebook :( the risk of 600 page nonfiction

I picked this up on a whim and it’s sparked at least 5 lovely conversations with strangers.

Just-like-every-girl Protagonist seeks main character energy. The original tale of romanticizing your life?

Testing whether my Denmark induced Viking hyperfixation can get me through this book when I’m not on vacation.

The first two chapters lit up the same parts of my brain that were fascinated by einstein’s relativity in college. Already obsessed with the idea of how grammatical structure and punctuation lend a 3d time-space dynamic to a narrative and how the pacing of a narrative (summary, scene, dilation) are essentially the time travel of reading. Hoping I don’t get book ADD before finishing this.