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Have I mentioned I love this book?

Man, I love this book, and I am convinced I am living not only in the wrong country but also the wrong century.

Now we had a pistol duel between two women dressed in men’s clothes aborted due to a painful trigger-finger followed immediately by a mob that wanted to eff up these gender outlaws who, in turn, were only saved by a man shepherding pigs up the lane in order to beat a Frenchman with turkeys to the market. This book just keeps getting better!

This book so far is delightful!

The problem with book, besides all the hard-to-find expensive copies of mentioned books I now want to buy, is that it also makes me want to go back and get that doctorate in English I chickened out on.

This is the gayest "not gay" book I've ever read.

Well, that kept me up all night. Forty more pages for tomorrow!

Man, Rosalie's one lucky three-penny upright...

Do people have this much sex in real life?

Oh, that twenty-fourth chapter was absolutely perfect. Delicious! #TeamBurnley

I really need some man-on-Renley action already.

I’m 99% sure this cat is going to die and I am not happy about it.

This book is rather strange.

I’m done! And I survived the cunnilingus! And there was so much cunnilingus! There better be lots of gay blowjobs in the next two!

Well, got through the first icky sex scene (MF only!) and I'm still alive, so...

Look, ma, I'm reading a book with heterosexuals in it! (Hopefully. I haven't got to the very heterosexual parts yet. We'll see.)

I've stalled on this for now. I'm not DNFing it, because I'm going to finish it... I'm just not committing to it only. I never thought I'd be in an open relationship with a long-dead Russian author, but here we are.

For some strange reason (I blame my sudden interest in writing a Fae changeling story) I find myself reading the sequel to a book I didn't like, and this one is almost worse? Confusing scenes, bad dialog, and the sense that the author think she's being clearer than she is... and yet I keep reading it. Will wonders never cease...

I think I’m done with the War part for a while at least!

I'm struggling.

War is boring, and I don't even understand half of what they're saying, because I am not a Napoleon expert, but I feel as though I must persist, even though I've never been one to stick with a book if I'm not feeling it.

But here I go again...

Volume 1, Part 1 down! Woo hoo! Prince Andrey is gay, right?

I'm not saying that reading this tome is physically dangerous, but I am saying that my neck has suddenly started hurting...

Piece of cake!

I love Winterson -- I've had a WoW character named after her for decades! -- but this is just not working for me. It's very different than what the blurb suggests, and if this is criticism, like the subject label in the book's back corner says, then it's political, not literary, and even then, it mostly just reads like the a series of op-eds in the local newspaper... so far.