What is it that you love between the shadow and the soul? 🖤 Don't tell, just ponder.
4 days
It is gut wrenching to read about how humans have caused and keep causing the extinction of so many different species. It hit me right in the feels, it saddened me, it made me feel powerless. I wish I could lean into the bright and optimistic views that the authors paint at the end, lean into the hope that the people who read it in the 90s probably felt. But reading this today? I mean, this book was written over 30 years ago! It's sad to think that everything is much much worse today. At least this book is great fuel...
5 days
"Oh yes. Well, if he thinks Carl's his mother it more or less follows, doesn't it? They may not be brilliant, but they're logical. He's quite convinced he's a human. He completely ignores the other kestrels, hasn't got time for them, they're just a bunch of birds as far as he's concerned. But when Carl walks in here he goes completely berskerk."
6 days
Good drawing practice with a badass character.
10 days
I love the ominous, creepy, cryptic prose here.
"The Captain's black brows drew together, and her face took on a hideous expression: a flat tangle of features that scared Nona so badly that she wanted to go to the bathroom again, right until the Captain opened her mouth and droned, punctuated by huge wheezing lungfuls of air: "Dust of my dust—such similar star salt—what they did to you and what they wrung from you and what shape they made you fill—we see you still—we seek you still—we murdered—we who murder-you inadvertent tool—you misused green thing—come back us-take vengeance for us—we saw you—we see you—I see you.""
12 days
"When Red wins, she stands alone."
14 days
I found it interesting that the concept of "finding The One" was explored in a thriller. While it wasn't my favorite book, it reminded me of a funny take on this Soul Mates topic by Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd comic)
15 days
I’m loving the multi narrators it really makes the story come alive
15 days
"The night I watch Athena Liu die, we're celebrating her TV deal with Netflix."
16 days
The kakapo is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot. It's endemic to New Zealand and it's almost extinct. "It would help if there were plenty of them being born, but this brings us on to more problems. The kakapo is a solitary creature: it doesn’t like other animals. It doesn’t even like the company of other kakapos. One conservation worker we met said he sometimes wondered if the mating call of the male didn’t actively repel the female, which is the sort of biological absurdity you otherwise find only in discotheques."
16 days
A quick sketch of a concept I came up with. Inspired by this book I'm reading, I imagined a coat of arms of Gideon (the rapier of the cavalier) and Harrowhark (the bone of the necromancer). What's with the skulls, you ask? Ambiance.
