RE: https://mastodon.social/@mailkid/115645591648713594

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"The alternative is to demand the impossible. It isn't right, they whisper, weep, shout; what has been done to them is not right. They are not inferior. They do not deserve it. And so it is the society that must change. There can be peace this way, too, but not before conflict."

- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky, p. 311f.

#TheStoneSky #NKJemisin #TheBrokenEarth #TheBrokenEarthTrilogy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mailkid/115645585429161372

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"Some accept their fate. Swallow their pride, forget the real truth, embrace the falsehood for all they're worth - because, they decide, they cannot be worth much. If a whole society has dedicated itself to their subjugation, after all, then surely they deserve it? Even if they don't, fighting back is too painful, too impossible. At least this way there is peace, of a sort. Fleetingly."

- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky, p. 311f.

#TheStoneSky #NKJemisin #TheBrokenEarth

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"None of us got here overnight. There are stages to the process of being betrayed by our society. One is jolted from a place of complacency by the discovery of difference, by hypocrisy, by inexplicable or incongrous ill treatment. What follows is a time of confusion - unlearning what one thought to be the truth. Immersing oneself in the new truth. And then a decision must be made."

- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky, p. 311f.

#TheStoneSky #NKJemisin #TheBrokenEarth

Started _The Stone Sky_ by N.K. Jemisin. It’s the final book in the Broken Earth trilogy.

https://nkjemisin.com/writing/the-stone-sky/

#Books #Reading #NkJemisin #BrokenEarth #TheStoneSky

PART II: TBR Pile

#WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #BooksOfMastodon #QueerLit #WritersOfMastodon #FaefyxWrites #TBRList #BookStack #ReadingGoals #TBRpile #StephenKing #TheInstitute #TylerHays #TheImaginaryCorpse #EmilyOster #Cribsheet #NKJemisin #TheStoneSky #LeeChild #DieTrying #MegBashwiner #JosephFink #TheFirstTenYears #AlexandraBracken #Lore #TheodoraGoss #TheStrangeCaseOfTheAlchemistsDaughter #NeilGaiman #AnansiBoys #StephenKing #FairyTale

#Bookshot this month features #TheStoneSky the triumphant conclusion to the #BrokenEarthTrilogy

https://www.litcityblues.com/2023/07/bookshot-167-stone-sky.html?m=1

Finished the Broken Earth Trilogy and oh man, what a ride!
I think I will chew on those books for a while now.

#BrokenEarth #TheFifthSeason #TheObeliskGate #TheStoneSky