Status Updates From The Last Chronicle of Barset

Dear Rev. Harding! 🥹❤️‍🩹

I love Rev. Harding so much!!

Grace Crawley and her mom are my heroes!!

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So satisfying to see all the threads starting to come together!

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Shocker!!!

This book is accomplishing one of my very favourite responses or effects in me the further I get into it: I am seeing myself, or rather who I could have been, if not for the graces and mercies I’ve received from God, without the incredible blessing of my wife if we had never married, and if I’d made different choices along the way that would actually have been consistent with some of my character flaws. ❤️

Chapter 62—Ugh, Mr Crawley, you’re so blasted prideful and stubborn!!

My heart breaks for Mr Crawley. He’s so mentally ill, he just isn’t thinking clearly or rationally, and he’s going to take his family down with him…

Chapter 60—OK, I have to admit to loving Mrs Van Siever!! She’s hysterical!!

The Lily Dale—Johnny Eames—Adolphus Crosbie plotline is getting wearisome… But I’m loving the Grantly—Crawley—Harding plotline is absolutely holding my attention!

Grace Crawley is an outstanding character in every way!! What were the people of Trollope’s thinking, going so crazy for Lily Dale?! Grace is THE standout young female character of the book!!

It is completely ingenious, the way Trollope can weave and intersect all of the families and communities from the previous five novels together in this final instalment in the world of Barsetshire! Simply glorious storytelling!

I’ve come to love these characters and the village of Barsetshire so dearly—what will I do when this final book comes to a close? 💔