#MoL_again

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Re-read of Mother of Learning

a few days ago i finished Mother of Learning by nobody103 on royal roads. It was the best realized time-loop piece of fiction I have ever read. I love Zorian Kazinski, his disfunctional family and a human golden retriever that is Zach Noveda.

I have also purchased the first arc on Audible and I am going to do a re-read/listen of it and see how many times i am going to laugh at our little time looping wizard while he says things like: “But that had nothing to do with me.”

PS: the fandom is smol but if it does reach anyone please do comment, we can scream together

PPS: I am going to tag all of those as #MoL_again in case there is anyone who would like to opt out of this experience

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Chapter 2: Life’s little problems

Zorian: wow I really did uderestimate Benisek

Benisek: talks

Zorian: nevermind

Benisek: some astrological BS

Zorian: Planetary alignment

Benisek: thats what i said!

(I am sure we wont hear about this again)

everytime the Kazinski family is mentioned my sould dies a little bit upon the remembrance there was no proper confrontation and resolution, author said this book was supposed to be workbuilding practice at first and i can tell, i just think its a shame there are so many opportunities for some realy charged dialogue and interpersonal drama, i mean it means nothing while they are still in the time loop, but i still thought it was a shame there were not more pages dedicated to interpersonal relationships

ooh mister Barenova mention, that is some LONG term foreshadowing

and we are meeting Taiven! first impression not that great, but she really is one of the more realized characters in the future, although having a breakdown on camera so to speak will do that

sewer run! this book is chuck full of rpg references, this is just the tip of the iceberg

nothing dangerous ever happens down there, pffft yeah right, why do you call him roach anyway. Three hours to get rid of her? They are both so fucking stubborn

Oh god his class is full of main characters, but at least it has an in universe explanation lol

I love how the first thing we hear from Zach is "Hot isn't she"

If there is one thing I can truly find no fault with its magic system worldbuilding, just *chef's kiss*

Xvim appears and is his annoying self, the narator gavem some sort of accent (something eastern i would say russian but softer) and honestly, that fits. I personally would not survive this without blowing up. Now this is spoiler teritorry but i think it is very funny that the one thing that (maybe) managed to impress him, was that Zorian lasted that long with him without doing something drastic.

Zorian: this is gonna be an exercise in frustration

oh if you only knew

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Chapter 3: The Bitter Truth

Yes I am continuing this, yes it is because of the one person who liked all my MoL posts. @lady-without-name this is for you

Here we go again, insert meme.

Warding honestly sounds like such an interesting subject, I relate to having a teacher that sucks at teaching though, discrete mathematics my beloved. Syrokian highlands - yes the government wants you to know how to work here, wink wink. Oh what I would not give for just a novel of Zach and Zorian being a part of an expedition meant to establish an outpost in the Northern Forest.

ah once again we are foreshadowing Zach being a time-traveller. You know I remember reading this the first time, I was unfortunately a bit spoiled because it literally said in the description of the book there is a timelooper present. I wonder if I would have figured it out myself.

Yeah he still can't do female voices. I am really dunking on the narrator a lot aren't I? I would switch to just reading it, but and audiobook is so convenient tho.

Zorian searching for a word throuple lmao. At least he knows when to stay in his own lane, I like that about him. "He did nothing to me, I am not going to get him into trouble."

No, he could detect no disapproval in posture, and he was pretty sure she’d be rather annoyed if she sensed his plans. explain to me once again Mister Kazinski how you absolutely cannot be an empath?

You want them to learn 10 dances in one week? I barely learned 10 dances when I had my dancing lessons in several months?

I can relate to not wanting to have a relationship with a classmate because the rest of the class would make it unbearable, god I am remembering high school now. "I am nobody! A third son of a minor merchant family from the middle of nowhere." - muahahaha, oh the sweet power of hindsight

Yeah, Zach is a prime protagonist hero material, but he is gonna need you, isn't he?

OK this right here was a moment Ilsa lost me, I hate, hate I tell you, when a child (he is fifteen, it counts) tells you something is bothering them, they have a problem with something you listen. Even if he didn't have empathy headache and it was just some plain old social anxiety this approach vexes me so much! I get headaches too blah blah blah. Her getting Akoja to go with him, is problematic at best. I know she has a crush, but still if he says he doesn't want a day why force him?

and of course, the wise ones know this is not at all Benisek's fault, but our time traveler pulling the strings

Aah fortov comes on the scene. I am kind of curious how that really went down, you know the whole purple creeper patch thing. But we are about to see Kael, our first time loop ally.

This chapter does a good job of setting up some things for later and how Zorian feels about his place in society and the greater world, as in he does not want the world to care about him at all.

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so far this book is read by Jack Voraces, he is good but if he reads Kirielle like this all the time i am gonna throw my phone out the window. The tone embodies all the annoying younger sisters perfectly, lets leave it at that.

Oh our boy is already demonstrating his knowledge of how locks work. I never realized how shady he sounded from the start

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Chapter 1: Good Morning Brother

a first mention of Xvim, yay

this family is so disfunctional i love it

“it was more like large gatherings of people generated some sort of pressure that weighted down on him” - no sir there is no way i am an empath

oooh i forgot how creepy the rats were. Nochka! it will be a long time until we actually know your name but it sure is nice to see you