I’m always pleasantly delighted when I discover new words. I test them on my tongue like a new spice and sprinkling them into drafts to solidify them in my memory. In the past, I only made a mental note of them before moving on with the story. Then I picked up Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and forever doomed my marginalia.
It was the first time in a long time I really had to sit down with a pen scribbling in the margins and my phone open the least ad-infested dictionary website. My copy of Gideon is now covered in notes about everything from theories and reactions to brief explanations to Biblical and extremely specific medical references. It’s a gorgeously massacred paperback decorated with tabs and topped off with a broken spine.
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