Status Updates From Essays in Idleness: and Hoj...

"But the girl ate nothing but chestnuts and never touched grains, so her father declared that she was too eccentric to be marriageable, and rejected them all."

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The age is starting to show its ugly head but this book is still intriguing and will likely be a 4 stars. To judge a work of such age with a modern perspective will doom it. Instead, I’m opting to let go of the poorly aged entries and fish out those entries worth holding onto and march onward with.