“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”

― Yevgeny Zamyatin,
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The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

I love this for its international, multicultural, and encompassing scope.

For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt, the boredom, and the horrible communism of the Square. After a day or two she had ceased to feel even a flicker of surprise at her situation. She had come, like everyone about her, to accept this monstrous existence almost as though it were normal. The dazed, witless feeling that she had known on the way to the hopfields had come back upon her more strongly than before. It is the common effect of sleeplessness and still more of exposure. To live continuously in the open air, never going under a roof for more than an hour or two, blurs your perceptions like a strong light glaring in your eyes or a noise drumming in your ears. You act and plan and suffer, and yet all the while it is as though everything were a little out of focus, a little unreal. The world, inner and outer, grows dimmer till it reaches almost the vagueness of a dream.

I'm new to BookLikes and absolutely love it so far. My favorite books to read are in the Fantasy Genre. I will try to update as frequently as possible what current books I am reading or have just finished and what I think about them.

I just read a new book I bought on amazon called Ovid's Valley by Eric Patrick Clayton and thought I'd share with everyone that I highly recommend it. It's an adult contemporary fantasy novel, written very well with a lot of fantastical elements and great characterization. The main character Aaron, is depicted with great detail. As I was reading, I felt as though I was experiencing what the characters were experiencing. It was one of those reads where I couldn't put the book down. It appears as if it is the first in the series, therefore, I can't wait for book two to come out! You guys should definitely check it out!