About halfway through reading this book, I realized I was reading it extra slowly - a 250-page book will take me 3h max, but I'd only made it about 120 pages in during that timeframe. This is a slow, deliberate, dense, detailed, and extremely rewarding read deceptively packed in a tiny little package.

I'll also confess that I read it in English and spent the first 60 pages continuously wondering what the original translation had been, and had a lot of "why... am I not reading this in Polish" moments throughout the book. It was a lot of fun to not struggle with any of the pronunciation, though. I want to reread this book, not only to reread it in my mother tongue (and the original language of the novel) but also because I know how rich and rewarding the next read will be.

Drive your Plow reminds me so so much of another amazing atmospheric book I love and have been meaning to reread - Gene Wolfe's [b:Peace|60213|Peace|Gene Wolfe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1391052690l/60213._SY75_.jpg|58579]. In Peace, we stumble atmospherically through time, somewhat blindly, and are guided by ominous elements of nature and alchemy. In Drive your Plow, it's much the same only with a lot of astrology.

As I was reading this book, I knew that I would include these words in my review: this book is fucking weird. For a few different reasons, but it's just a damn weird book. And all the things that make it weird also make it rewarding, excellent, and deceptive. What a great read.

More thoughts here: https://youtu.be/mWv_X7hblGk