#lit: tihylttw

[myprivatelibrary]

I appreciate your subtlety. Not every battle's grand, not every weapon fierce. Even we who fight wars through time forget the value of a word in the right moment, a rattle in the right car engine, a nail in the right horseshoe... It's so easy to crush a planet that you may overlook the value of a whisper to a snowbank.

-This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, p.13

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[thelabryslibrary]

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

New episode!!! 

This book broke our brains and hurt us and we both loved it. Listen to us talk all about this epistolary sci-fi romance that we couldn't get enough of. We dive into analysis from a queer perspective as two queer readers and share our own feelings about the book (spoiler: we loved it).  

Seriously. This book is incredibly gorgeous. It hurts the same way a kiss can and it fills you up like hunger does. The themes in this book, the structure of the narrative, the language, all of it works together to create a story that spans time and space and still manages to find its home in a hole in the center of your chest.

Listen on Spotify here!

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[smokefalls]

Title: This Is How You Lose the Time War Authors: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Publication Year: 2019 Publisher: Saga Press Genre: fiction, queer lit, science fiction, romance

Novellas are tricky, considering their constraints and the author(s) having to do just the right amount of worldbuilding, character development, pacing, and the rest. I often find that many novellas don't quite work for me because I always felt something was missing/lacking. Unfortunately, this was the case for This Is How You Lose the Time War.

The novella heavily relies on the characters to carry the story, which I don't think is entirely an issue. I thought the epistolary approach was a really unique way to reveal the relationship between Red and Blue, as well as to help push the story along. However, I wasn't entirely taken to this romance. I had too many questions that might have been addressed if there was more worldbuilding. I think if the authors fleshed out their dystopian world some more so the reader could follow what was happening and why, the novella would have been far more compelling. It also would have greatly developed Red and Blue as characters because their motives would have been clearer.

Something else that stood out to me about this novella was the prose. It's very purple-y prose, which will work for some, while others will hate it. It was clear that a lot of thought went into each sentence, especially in the letters. Admittedly, I did find the flowery language to be a bit much at times, but it wasn't a negative for me in general.

TIHYLTTW clearly worked for many people, though, with many fans expressing their love for the slow burn sapphic romance. So, there's also the fact that I'm not much of a romance person (as I've probably made clear in many reflections/ramblings), and maybe I just wasn't the target audience.

Overall, I wasn't particularly frustrated with this novella, but I'm not fully understanding the adoration for it either.

Content Warning: violence, death, war, body horror, torture mentions

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[maddiebuckley]

❝ i love you. i love you. i love you. i'll write it in waves. in skies. in my heart. you'll never see, but you will know. ❞ ―amal el-mohtar & max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war

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[victoreli]

this is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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[queerenteen]

// love and yearning //

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[ladyeowyn]

...and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you. But never again like this...

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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[cosettepontmercys]

edit challenge vs. @selwynkane​​​ →  round one ☆ letters ± this is how you lose the time war

your letter, the sting, the beauty of it. those forevers you promise. neptune. i want to meet you in every place i ever loved

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[parhelias]

It’s amazing how much blue there is in the world, if you look. You’re different colors of flame: Bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. See? I pour you into things.

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[archersea]

this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar and max gladstone.

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[ourravenboys]

love + this is how you lose the time war

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[duartue]

@booksociety’s Love Is in the Air event: This Is How You Lose The Time War

“i have built a you within me, or you have. i wonder what of me there is in you.”

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[maddiebuckley]

@storyseekers event 13: florals | this is how you lose the time war

❝ at the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you. ❞ ―amal el-mohtar and max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war

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[saintdollyparton]

New book haul! Heard good things about all of these. #thisishowyoulosethetimewar #themidnightlie #sixofcrows #grishaverse https://www.instagram.com/p/CMBCaYCBvwG/?igshid=1can3ctgadfgl

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[cenvast]

@booksociety‘s Love Is in the Air event: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

broken open by the act, in the palm of your hand, dying.

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[ladyeowyn]

It is always too late to say what must be said. I cannot stop you now. I cannot save you. Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down. You gave me so much—a history, a future, a calm that lets me write these words though I’m breaking. I hope I’ve given you something in return—I think you would want me to know I have. And what we’ve done will stand, no matter how they weave the world against us. It’s done now, and forever.

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