#reading diary

It's rather clever, to write Ryuzaki as so closely resembling L but just slightly taking it too far. Eating jam straight from the jar with his fingers. Drinking pure sugar wetted with coffee. Scuttling on the floor like a crab. When you read it you're thinking "this is a bit much, even for L...", but it's not so much more that it takes you out of the story. With just a little extra nudge of eccentrism, you could imagine L doing it. But it's not him, it's an intentional pastiche. It's someone playing a caricature.

i started reading war and peace and so far one of my absolute favorite lines is “why has fate given you two such splendid children? 😊 i don’t include ANATOLE 🙄, your youngest 😒 — i don’t like him 😤😤”

i've been reading quite a lot this year and finished the first mistborn trilogy a little while ago. pretty curious about what the most(?) held up as a good example of a current fantasy author had to offer. mostly my feelings about it are that it's not very good. like. passable. i understand some of the compliments his writing gets wrt being like... structurally sound. the events that happen are kinda interesting and the build up and payoff for mysteries is enjoyable, but they feel really detached from the rest of the writing. most of the enjoyment I probably could've gained reading a synopsis and digging through the tvtropes page. they're also long as fuck for no reason. my internal sense for what i enjoy in books, picking up authors' voices etc is something that's developing. putting any of that into words is still tough though!!