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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
slowly reading the poppy war. it's a Huge complicated book with politics and intrigue and drama and magic but also a lot of funny dialogue. e.g. the rapport between rin (incredible, 10/10 protag) and her bestie: Meals became silent and reserved affairs. Everyone ate with a book held before his or her nose. If any students ventured to strike up a conversation, the rest of the table quickly and violently shushed them. In short, they made themselves miserable.
“Sometimes I think this is as bad as the Speer Massacre,” Kitay said cheerfully. “And then I think—nah. Nothing is as bad as the casual genocide of an entire race! But this [studying] is pretty bad.”
“Kitay, please shut up.”
--- “I wonder what a Federation soldier looks like,” Kitay said as they descended the mountain to pick up sharpened weapons from the armory.
“They have arms and legs, I’m guessing. Maybe even a head.”
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“It’s sort of exciting, really,” Kitay said.
“Yes,” said Rin. “We’re about to be invaded by our centuries-old enemy after they breached a peace treaty that has maintained a fragile geopolitical stability for two decades. So very exciting.”
“At least now we know we have job security,” said Kitay. “Everyone wants more soldiers.”
“Could you be a little less glib about this?”
“Could you be less depressing?”
“Could we move a bit faster?” asked the magistrate. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH OH MY GOD I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE POPPY WAR TRILOGYYYYYY
Believe me darling, it's only gonna get better from the Sinegard arc. Currently, I'm finished the second book (The Dragon Republic) and IT WAS DELICIOUS. The tone gets wayy dark, and it's not afraid to get political, and it's also not afraid to show us horrible sides of the human nature, even, —especially if it comes from Rin.
Also? Venka becomes best girl. I've also finished reading Les Miserables by the chad Victor Hugo in French for school, and I gotta say, prose hits different in another language 😳 (The book is BEAUTIFULLY written if you ignore the slighty off-putting romance between Marius and Cosette)
Et, quoi qu’il fît, il retombait toujours sur ce poignant dilemme qui était au fond de sa rêverie :– rester dans le paradis, et y devenir démon !rentrer dans l’enfer, et y devenir ange !
Rough Translation: And whatever he did, he fell back endlessly into this poignant dilemma that lay at the bottom of his nightmares: to remain in paradise and therefore become a demon! To hark back to the hell, and therefore become an angel!
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last edit on Jul 3, 2022 1:54:40 GMT by zytl
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