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  5. What are you reading? II

    in Chatterbox

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    I finished reading Working Stiff by Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist about her first years in the field in New York City. Right now I'm trying to finish some book about the Vikings because I've been playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla and am a wee bit obsessed.

  23. 13 Horror Movies

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    3 Horror Flicks you won’t watch:

    •I'm not sure there are any
    • 🤷🏽‍♀️ 
    •🤔 
     

    5 of your favorites: 

    •House on Haunted Hill
    •Jeepers Creepers 
    •A Tale of Two Sisters
    •Saw
    •Get Out
     

    2 guilty pleasures (they’re bad but you’ll keep them on):

    •Saw
    •All the Saws
     

    2 you WISH YOU HAD NEVER WATCHED:

    •Escape Room
    •I'm sure there are more
     

    1 thing you always want the characters to do that they REFUSE to do:

    •don't split up 

    Bonus, Title of your own Horror Flick:

    •MAGA

  25. My reaction to finally discovering what Moiraine sees in Thom

    in Kesiera

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    So about this mind rape business. 

    I wish the books had made clear the trauma she had been through, even if going into such gory details isn't really needed. But as is, her distance with Lan makes no sense. You can state that the Finn messed with her memories without saying the specifics. It might also explain the lack of a Siuan reunion: maybe those memories were also violated. 

    But my big thing is, she has been tortured. She has suffered psychological abuse. The fact that she's portrayed as just jumping back into the fold as normal (Lan aside) is just unrealistic. Or at least, not sustainable. There is no way you have all your memories, except for the four Thom ones, altered and abused and you come out of that without ptsd. The Finns crafted a whole nightmare scenario for her using Mordin; these are not nice foxes. Which makes them leaving the Thom memories alone even more suspect. Her being so in love would have made some horror involving Thom that much greater. But I digress. There is no way she doesn't have nightmares. There's no way she doesn't wake up in the night in a cold sweat or screaming. And Randland lacks mental health services. There's that one Aes Sedai who's interested in healing Warders minds, but that seems more like a curiosity. And is specific to Warders. And Moiraine is probably too paranoid to trust another Aes Sedai. 

    Knowing what she's been through and how she's still able to get the job done is truly heroic. But the reader would never know. It also would explain why she might want nothing to do with politics (specifically stupid Elayne being the stupid queen of her country), because she's just drained. Why she jumped on marrying, since she needs some happiness after all that. 

    So while the rape troupe is trash, the lack of further character development is disappointing. 

     

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