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Just a sad girl reading sad books.

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commented on This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster) 4 stars

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

This book is like Lex for time travelers. If like, I dunno, Lex was actually good and people responded to each other with long poetic, intimate letters.

Even though the book is relatively short, it's taking me a long time to read because after each letter, I want to stop and digest it for a while, like after getting a long message from a dear friend.

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster) 4 stars

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

I'm only on the third chapter and I'm already loving this.

Time agents on opposite sides a temporal war who become engaged in a lesbian romance. Each of them from a future that mutually excludes the other's very existence. Their very ability to meet (and presumably touch) a paradox only made possible by the tension of the uncertainty over which future will come to exist.

Thus far, a full half of the novella has been the correspondence the two agents have left for each other across time and space while they carry out their missions.

started reading Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy

Margaret Killjoy, Jonas Goonface: Escape from Incel Island (EBook, 2023, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness) 4 stars

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any …

If the rest of the book is as good as the first two sentences, this is going to be fucking amazing.

They don't call me Mankiller Jones for nothing. They call me Mankiller Jones because I tell people that's my name and I throw kind of a fit if anyone calls me anything else.