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This is my first John Green, and knowing little about him, I'd never imagined that he had had such a similar and relatable experience with depression and anxiety to myself. I've really been going through it recently and I was surprised by how much it helped. Often I find narratives about mental health alienating, not because they are "wrong" but because they don't align at all with my own experience. I really loved some of the writing about illness in general, and about how fraught it can be to try and talk to someone who is ill (from both sides).

I really enjoyed his perspective and his curiosity. It would be a fun personal project to make my own little reviews from my own little puddle of the Anthropocene.

Really sweet. Nice epilogue to the series, though I would have loved to have seen a little more from Abby's cousins.

delivered on having ten men who are big and fat.

funny that we are still teaching using this book 40 years later. I like how the last page is clearly for comprehension checks. I'm very pro them hiring lots of different illustrators, I wish we still did this with more modern equivalents (as opposed to ReadWriteInk that uses minimalist quentin-blake-dupes and is kinda of cute but clearly not employing the same level of range)

this was so precisely suited to what I wanted to read over the past week. I really love the story, and the relatable directionlessness of the main character. The illustrations are so lovely, I think we need to have illustrations in adults books a lot more than we do currently.

*spoilers*

Love so much of this but I really wish Ah Roa and the protagonist's relationship was slightly more fleshed out (just another chapter would do the trick.) Also wish her problems weren't solved by getting a job.

So bleak but brilliant, I love the way that it's a dystopian story that focuses on the power of community and purposeful change ("You can shape God" !!!). I want to read the sequel asap!!!

real shocker to me that this is set right now just as life in the US is at the worst it's been within my lifetime. This is terrible in different ways (government abandonment as opposed to government oppression) but I think it makes for a really interesting read rn.

I find the characters so interesting, especially Lauren, her dad, and Zara. Keith is also so well written but I got so mad at him I needed to take a breather.

took a while to grab me but after a while I was just loving that spirit of adventure in such a classic fantasy setting. I've been playing Witcher 3 and this felt like it paired really well.

Curious how Le Guin will expand on the roles of women in this series, as I've heard that's something she reflected on and expanded as she wrote the books of Earthsea