#book 41

[jerichomere]

Thank you animorphs wiki

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

That awkward moment when a book from 2000 jumps forward ten years to New York with the World Trade Centre

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 41 of the 50 book challenge. Surprising Spies by Karen Gray Ruelle. A book about spies during wwii. One was a major league catcher who spied against Japan, another was Josephine Baker who spied for the allies in France, another was a British thief who pretended he wanted to be a Nazi in Europe and was sent back to spy on Britain and then turned him self in to the British who used him, another man was an illusionist and magician, another was the story of the Navajo Code talkers in the Pacific. Because the Navajo language was not written down only spoken. It’s a great book and really interesting. I highly recommend it.

[itspronouncedtessa]

2025 Reading Journal

May 26

Book 41

Mark Stay

The Corn Bride

The Witches of Woodville 5

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 41 of the 50 book challenge. How to lose a battle by Bull Fawcett. This is a number of battles throughout history where we find out why one side lost. It starts with The Battle of Arbela in 331 bc between Alexander and the Persian empire and ends with Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in 1954. It’s really interesting and gives you information and insight into what was happening.

[batastrophe7]

Ok animorphs #41 is hot garbage but despite that has some Moments worthy of cataloging. I also feel like we need to keep in mind that The Whole Thing Was, In Fact, A Dream, and this is all stuff Jake’s brain cooked up all by itself, somehow (I am choosing to believe the mysterious voice at the end was also just a figment of Jake’s imagination). That being said, have a collection of quotes entirely out of context:

“Tired of the city? Make the Yeerk home world your home, too. Transports leaving noon and midnight, first of each cycle, Yeerk Empire State Building.”

Yeerk Empire State Building. Yeerk. Empire State Building. Yeerk Empire. state building.

“The Yeerks want the moon.”

“How would I save our moon from transfiguration?”

“I hear you, man. My host used to work for the ACLU and he just won’t shut up about how I’m infringing on his rights.”

“‘You’re just in time for this afternoon’s group efficiency workshop,’ piped up another of the humans. ‘Peer Communication Skills - Conquest through Companionship.’”

“Everyone wants to help the Yeerks. It’s the informed choice, the ‘in’ thing to do. Life’s cool when you share your head.”

“I followed the music and aromas to a huge carpeted room, like a banquet hall. Blue and red lights flashed and spun in the darkness. Long tables lined the walls and framed a dance floor. Orff lifted crystal mugs of green brew into the air, chanted something incomprehensible, downed the liquid, and slammed the mugs to the table. At the far end, a ring of Taxxons stuffed pot pie after pot pie into their mouths, cheered on by Hork-Bajir.”

“I grabbed a taco off a table and crammed it into my mouth, then dance-walked over to the hovercraft dock.”

“‘Get the sauce,’ he bellowed, ‘and bring it to my table. You’re right, the tacos stink.’”

“Next to me was a tree. But not just your average neighborhood maple or oak. This sucker was huge. A billowing, thriving tree whose branches bowed to touch the ground, then headed back up toward the sky. Like the baobabs of Africa I’ve seen on the Discovery Channel. Every branch had a child on it. A smiling, playful child, singing and swaying. Some of them were obviously skilled tree-climbers. Not all of them were human, although most were. There were young Andalites, too. Even a number of Orff. And a Leeran. ‘Oh-wah-oh-wa-weh-se-gunta-go!’”

“I wanted to be respectful of him, but in my view he’d made a giant mistake with the terrorist campaign. I had to call him on it.”

[batastrophe7]

Animorphs #41 audiobook begins with a content warning (the first content warning of the entire series, too) and at first I didn’t understand why because the whole warning was that the book “was originally published in May 2000 and briefly depicts the original World Trade Center prior to the 9/11 attacks on New York City,” and I was like, that doesn’t seem so bad? Lots of things made before 9/11 depict the World Trade Center in its original form? And then I kept going and realized it’s because Cassie’s a terrorist in this book

[batastrophe7]

I kinda feel like animorphs 41 is giving me vibes from The Prisoner, but I haven’t watched enough of The Prisoner to know if that’s right or not