Status Updates From The Age of Innocence

I WAS having a hard time getting thru the first 23 pages. Then, I writing down who was who, and their relationships to the others who I also scribbled down. While contemplating all this I began to read the novel at probably around half my normal reading speed of 284(?) WPM and found the writing superb and delightful. Savory. Granted the language is still quite dated being it's set in 1870.

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