Status Updates From A Idade da Inocência

I'm just starting, but I might have a new favorite author. Wharton's writing is brilliant-- Austen style at near Shakespeare speed. It's incredible.

Forsyte Saga set in New York (kind of)

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. “After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,” he reflected; but the worst of it was that May’s pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep.