#dk annotates six of crows

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Me yesterday: I like using sticky notes for annotating because I don’t damage the paper

Me today on page fifteen: *glues in a sticky note*

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Planning my SoC and CK annotations

If you know this account then you probably know that I’ve read the Six of Crows duology somewhere around 30+ times, and I guess if you’re new then now you know (and also hi!), and that I write analyses of the books a lot on here, but that I’m yet to annotate all of my analysis and personal thoughts into the books despite really wanting to. Well, wonderful news, my amazing friend bought me new copies as a birthday gift especially so that I could annotate them!! So that’s kind of going to be my project over summer (alongside all my writing projects dw I won’t be dropping them) and since I said before that I’d be sharing my analytical annotations as I went to bring back the chapter-by-chapter analysis series that fell by the wayside a little while ago, I thought it might be fun to share the process with y’all 😁

So with that in mind, my plans for the annotating process:

I know I’d like to combine directly writing on the pages and writing on sticky notes and/or revision cards. Revision cards appeal to me as an option because I can slip them in neatly and safely but they will be easy to move them to prevent them block the text or damaging the paper. I do have clear sticky notes, but I didn’t find them quite as good as I was hoping when I was annotating Hera by Jennifer Saint, however that may be because that was a large hardback so each one didn’t actually cover much of the text or because of the pens I used, I’d be willing to try them again.

I also have some colourful paper tabs I haven’t used yet that I thought I’d use. I’m basing my method for this on how I used to annotate for English literature class, and I’ll note on that point I have very cleverly lost the colour coding keys I made for The Handmaid’s Tale and Frankenstein, so although all the colourful tabs look lovely they no longer mean very much unless you really compare the pages and find the similarities :( and I will therefore be making sure to actually transcribe the key for this inside the book cover instead of in a separate place. I did find my key for A Streetcar Named Desire the other day so that’s nice, but no sign of the others ❤️‍🩹

Anyway, I have 10 colours so I’ve started plotting out an idea for themes:

Class, money, and related themes

Religion and related themes

Greed and related themes

Power and related themes

Revenge and related themes

Addiction in different forms

Trauma and the reclamation of power

Worldbuilding

However, I’ve wondered two things based on this: firstly, is “greed” too closely linked to money and class, meaning I’ll just be tagging them both together all the time (or maybe greed & money and classism/the class system should be the two separate categories?) and secondly should “religion” be divided into general religious themes as one category and the weaponisation of religion as another? I’m also kind of wondering whether worldbuilding needs its own entire tab or if I’m better off just writing about it whenever relevant

Any which way I’m hoping to have one or two colours still available so I can alter little details if I choose to. The tabs are just colours I already owned so they aren’t exactly tone in-keeping (4 are varying shades of pink, one of which is very bright lmao) but it doesn’t really bother me and I’d rather use them up than buy more, but also I don’t know whether or not there will be enough to get through six of crows and crooked kingdom both so I might have to buy more anyway, in which case I’d really like to buy the same again and keep it cohesive if I can.

Does anyone have any suggestions for themes/motifs/anything that I’ve missed that I might want to tab??

I’m so excited to start!! I think I’m also going to use a grey highlighter but I might test it on one of the opening pages first to be safe