Status Updates From Jamaica Inn

Stressful, slow, moody

Oooo new character!! Haha

So far this is THE perfect October book

“However grim and hateful was this new country, however barren and untilled, with Jamaica Inn standing alone upon the hill as a buffer to the four winds, there was a challenge in the air that spurred Mary Yellan to adventure.”

Beyond this lay the road, a thin white ribbon that stretched on either hand to the horizon, surrounded on each side by moorland, brown and sodden from the heavy rains.

Here on the high ground there was no such natural shelter; there was nothing but the moor on either side of the road, and, above, the great black vault of the sky; and there was a scream that had not been before.

The very thought of him was an irritant and a stimulant at the same time.

Nature cared nothing for prejudice. . . Men and women were like the animals on the farm. . . there was a common law of attraction for all living things, some similarity of skin or touch, and they would go to one another. This was no choice made with the mind.