Status Updates From Der Leopard

Giggling way too much due to all the unnecessarily delightful metaphors in this book!

"THE RAINS had come, the rains had gone, and the sun was back on its throne like an absolute monarch kept off for a week by his subjects' barricades, and now reigning once again, choleric but under constitutional restraint."

There’s a few scenes with Angelica and Tancredi where it’s essentially ‘aristocrat meets S&M’
I now understand where this book gets its name from and I was NOT expecting this

"Between the pride and intellectuality of his mother and the sensuality and irresponsibility of his father, poor Prince Fabrizio lived in perpetual discontent under his Jove-like frown, watching the ruin of his own class and his own inheritance without ever making, still less wanting to make, any move towards saving it."

P.4