The Mary Sue Books and More Club discussion

Spoiler free discussion thread for The Trilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, will run through February. Please no spoilers, just general opinions and early thoughts while reading.

I just submitted my ILL request for this Monday -hoping it comes in on time to participate!

I just started this and it's hilarious. I'm having a hard time deciding if I should read the footnotes as I go or skip them and come back later. They're funny and informative but obviously they take the reader out of the story a little. Choices... frustrating...

Anyone else start yet? what did you decide with the footnotes?

I also just started and I can't not read the footnotes. I think I'll keep going this way and then read it again just for the story. It's really great so far!

My Interlibrary loan just arrived and I'm so excited! I think I scared the librarian who called to inform me that it was in.

I can't not read the footnotes, either. So informative!

Shelly wrote: "I found the footnotes took me out of it too much, I had the same problem with Mr. Norell and Jonathan Strange."

Ha! I'm reading both of these books right now and I seriously feel like I've been cursed by foot/endnotes.

The footnotes with endnotes with more footnotes in The Thrilling Adventures is a *little* over the top.

Lol, it was a little difficult. some of the comics were fine to read straight through and come back to the footnotes while some were furthered by the footnotes. unfortunately it differed from comic to comic, so there's no way to tell which way/order is best to read them in until after you've done it, lol. But I also couldn't not read them as I went along. I ended up doing kind of as Noa suggested and read each strip again after finishing the entire section/chapter.