Reviews and Comments

I got this from the library out of curiosity -- it was such a thing ten years ago, that even though I never read it I felt like I knew everything in it by osmosis. I was reminded of it because I am approaching my first year anniversary of living in my new place and I thought it might be fun to follow this book as a bit. But ultimately it's seeped so thoroughly into the mainstream consciousness that commentating on it didn't seem that fun.

There is however one thing which no one told me: at one point she genuinely claims that completing her method will often cause people to have diarrhea.

Sorry to my coworkers who no longer get to experience daily updates about medieval debt collection

this just isn't doing it for me

I re-read The Space Between Worlds to refresh my memory when I saw that this was out, and I was nervous to see what this would be, since that story felt.. concluded. But seeing that it's following different characters is a relief! I'm curious to see where it goes.

"God spoke to me, he says he wants me to tell you about all the times I was right and you were wrong"

this is a wild read and it's sort of comforting that a lot of her contemporaries, even in her account, seem to also be going "Margery, what?"

Margery Kempe would have killed it on Tumblr

As a kid I found this so engaging but on re-read it felt flat and aimlessly zany

I'm out of Murderbot?? mods???

Murderbot Diaries really is the Sanctuary Moon of our time

This book is so visual and imaginative, and thrives when walking you through the surreal, psychedelic, illuminated manuscript of a world. But while it was always interesting, I found it hard to stay engaged with the story at times, particularly in the middle. The ending compelled me, and I wish I'd had more of that connection to the plot and characters through the rest of the book.

every recipe using self-rising flour and salted butter is tiring me out

It seems like the main idea in this book is leaving cake batter at room temperature for a couple days to ferment before baking it, I am extremely interested

I have to interject here, a little over half way through, that I do not recommend this book. Just stick with Rats, Lice, and History.