Mason

“A road is never just a road.”

The only mention of Tulsa being how we burned our own highly successfully black community to the ground and then promptly rammed a 6 lane highway right through the middle of it is so Oklahoma

“There is no state of being called ‘trying'“

As much as I hate self-help books (and I really hate them) this was was genuinely good. Going from being a tyrannical “my way or the highway” kind of leader to opening yourself to change, and actually following through, was pretty inspiring

I've seen people defending these as being “deeper than you think” or having a nuanced theme about the tenacity and selflessness of humanity. Do I think they do? Absolutely not, but they sure are a good time

“People shouldn't have to be afraid, Adam. Of anything. The universe is vast and terrifying and unthinkably dangerous and you deserve to be protected. To be kept safe and sound. Because otherwise those terrible things rule you and fear rules you and you can't be who you really are. Freedom means no fear.”

This was actually way better than I expected, even though I almost stopped reading every time I had to read “antimeme”

I honestly don't like this series but I'm in too deep now, I need to finish it

These are just so fun, genuinely not a single negative comment

I've been in Seattle for only slightly more than a year and I'm already playing dnd and reading lit rpg books, god help me

Was the story meaningful? No
Was the writing good? Also no
But what it entertaining? Absolutely

This was just not very good I think. I really didn't care about any of the characters and nothing they did was very interesting

Nightblood was my favorite character

“Everybody says my way is great
but improbable.

All greatness
is improbable.
What's probable
is tedious and petty.” - Lao Tzu

“Heaven and earth are one. As you walk the streets of your town you walk on the Way of heaven.” Ursula K. Le Guin

I had to read this since my GOAT did, and found it pretty interesting. Taoism seems so antithetical to US culture, especially its ideas about power and “progress”. And I can probably connect every single chapter of this book to what Le Guin has written, whew it really DID influence her.

I also admittedly don't read very many books from East Asia, but I find it interesting both this and “The One Straw Revolution” are so again technological progress. This book almost calls it monstrous, and “The One Straw Revolution” entire premise was about going back to a simpler, less “modern” version of farming.

The first third and most of the second was great and I thought it was going somewhere, bit it honestly kind of lost me in the last third, idk

“Six and seven” - pg 502

As much as I dislike bittersweet endings, I have to admit that it was really good. Vin and Sazed might be some of my favorite characters ever, even if one of them had an ending I would give anything to change

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don't continue in it after failure?”

Unfortunately, I now deeply understand why people like Brandon Sanderson so much. Unfortunate because now I have to spend the year reading his entire bibliography

Honestly I also didn't like allomancy that much. Maybe it'll get better in the next two books but it just didn't click for me

“Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. “

FIRE, 10/1o no notes

And after reading Mistborn I have to say I liked this more. The magic system and the mystery of what happened was so cool, even if the final reveal was a little out of nowhere

“Is that not the greatest gift we can give? The chance for others to tell their stories, too?”

I'm genuinely kind of shocked how much I liked this. The first half wasn't great but the second half made me tear up a bit. I don't care what anyone says, optimistic stories with happy endings are the best kind

I wanted to like this so bad but idk, it just didn't work for me

This was so good it makes me want to read all of her other books again

This was just fine. I liked parts of it, but honestly I felt a few parts were pretty biased and didn't really present the information in the way I expected

Genuinely what is this book even trying to say. It goes from “private property doesn't exist” to “beheading world leaders for the revolution” to “video games are bad” within five pages of each other

“Beautiful creature! For him, and for all hunted things, one might shed a tear - but it will make no difference.”

This just got weirder and weirder as it went on, not to mention more disturbing. I lowkey thing I would need to read it twice to understand all the symbolism, it went right over my head

Funniest audiobook I've ever listened to in my life

Unfortunately the movie is better

I knew from the very first sentence I wasn't gonna like this

This was the most I was invested in a book in a long time. She cooked so hard on the characters and the plots. Was it perfect? No. But it was entertaining and had a happy ending so 5 stars

Honestly kind of just okay but the setting and plot was so cool it made it all worth it