#reading update

[jurisfictional]

(“I don’t want to be human.” Dr. Mensah said, “That’s not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.” “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”)

can we talk about how this is one of the best quotes in the Murderbot series?? bc I think it shows what all the sci-fi shows — star trek, star wars, doctor who — get wrong about depictions of non-humans. why do we assume that "being human" is the epitome of existence, such that all beings MUST want to be us (because how could they possibly want to be anything else?)?

Murderbot dares to ask: what if being not-a-human was just as worthy and valid as being a human?? would we treat them the same way? respect their personhood? could we even imagine that they wouldn't want to be just like us??

[bird-brain99]

list of things I found devastating in the first two chapters of my assassin’s apprentice reread:

- fitz being six years old

- newboy and molly nosebleed

- the fact that later in rote fitz remembers his relationship as “simple” and “true” when the first thing he ever does for her is repel her father to protect her and “be grateful that Molly had not realized [he] was responsible,” lying by omission with good intentions since the very day he met her

- fitz thinking he has never been braver than he was as a boy running errands in Buckkeep Town, despite everything else he’s done

- truly understanding how young burrich is and the extent of his loss when chivalry abdicates

- fitz not knowing anything about the wit, his friends not caring that he does not speak and that the dog goes where he goes

- burrich’s hatred of the wit being so strong because of its presence in himself. his desire to protect fitz from it being so strong because of how much he loves chivalry. “If Chivalry will not have me with him, it’s the least I can do for him.”

- burrich comforting fitz after losing nosy in a way that implies he himself has lost a wit partner before. that, or the one he needs to “let go of longing after” is chivalry. maybe both

- “Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down in me.”

[the---hermit]

01|03|2026

Spent my entire morning reading and I fully reorganized a closet in the afternoon. Because I need to pretend I am in control of something I guess? I do feel better about everything now tho so it worked.

[write-the-room]

why is Richard sickly for like 95% of the book he's always complaining about being exhausted and faint and nauseous and riddled with headaches and his solution is LETS HAVE MORE PILLS AND ALCOHOL??

LIKE SIR PLEASE JUST EAT A VEGETABLE IM BEGGING U

[inbetweencoffees]

Things escalated a bit (I only paid 20€?!)

Somehow worked my way through all of stochastics in an hour this morning? That means I can start solving problems and old mocks tomorrow morning :)!! I’m quite happy to have this much time to study for my math final. Anyway, I went to the bookstore afterwards and picked up:

•Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke (just finished it and I LOVED it. 5/5⭐️ & the first work by Rilke I’ve ever read)

•The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•Walden and Civil Disobedience- Henry David Thoreau

•Moby Dick - Hermann Melville

[bookcub]

really good reading month!!!! the everlasting was amazing, and i adore villains are destined to die and cant wait to read more.

[itsxinyi]

Reading Update ༄˖°.☕️.ೃ࿔📚*:･

So yesterday night around 1 am, I finished reading the last book of the Trilogy "All for the Game" by Nora Sakavic! 🥳

I wanted to make a post about this series sooner, when I was reading it actually. But then i just couldn't find the time and was too invested in it to stop and do anything else 😭 like no kidding, i literally read it day and night since the moment I started it. Downloaded one book after another as I kept reading and didn't slow down until I finally reached the end!

This was such an amazing series! I absolutely loved it and am so so glad that my friends Pep and Adie convinced me to start it. I am in love with all the characters from this series and am now searching up artworks on Insta, Tiktok, Pinterest, etc!

I absolutely madly love Andrew Minyard and also my boy, Nathaniel Wesninski 🤭. Neil Josten is good and all but Nathaniel's aura just hits different 😩💘 I love the surname Wesninski, it reeks of power and aura and is just so fucking sexy 🫦🤣

But yeah, I plan on reading the extras of the Trilogy before starting Book 4. Gonna do it soon! Rn tho, I got fanarts to drool on 🤩