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Kostya, why are you being such a jealous twit? We're supposed to like you!

How TF is this only halfway finished!? (Still into it as a peinture of another time and place.)

Tolstoy really did have a lot of sly authorial asides worked into the narration. I'm sure I'm missing most of them. Levin, at least, would probably appreciate me listening to this whilst working hands-on to improve my estate. (Scraping paint from an almost-contemporary staircase.)

Too many of these stories are just extended fight scenes.

Navare has all the introspection of Fitz without being a sad sack. This is a good thing, even if he is a character bound by the prevailing tradition and religion of his time (like most of people in human history trying to be Good People).

Aw, yeah. School story time.

Any enjoyment to be found in this novella is severely undermined by the audiobook blasting river sounds and bad music at top volume over the narration for 5 minutes at a stretch.

My audiobook for the train, in between the "mommymommymommy" interruptions.

Evidence suggests this author has never met a scientist or pregnant woman in his life. These people are all REALLY bad at their jobs.

This book is trying SO HARD to fill an Andy Weir-sized hole and failing spectacularly with nothing clever to say OR do.

At least Isabella got a few years of peace.

Female narrator when the framing device is a male visitor interrogating a housekeeper is honestly throwing me for a loop in this audiobook. But these characters sure are awful, which tracks with my only real source of info on this classic: webcomic memes.

Garden cleanup audiobook time!

So close to the end of my audiobook, but my battery failed me on long dog hike. Got to see some new places though.

Long trek through the woods audiobook would be fitting for a long trek through the woods... Except there are too many people on this trail and they all want to be chatty. Urgh.

Hauled out of a Little Free Library in Malta. Makes for acceptable plane reading.

These characters are insufferable and have 0 chemistry as pairings or a group.

So far this is much closer related to a treatise on trauma response than the cozy retelling I expected.

It's already proven that I'm mishearing names with Asher Todd/Asha Tart and Burton/Burden, but now I am faced with Eilys & Eluned (separately) and it's just weird.

And given the gothic-ness, that might be the point.

I am this far into the audiobook and only just now realizing the MC's named "Asher Todd," not "Asha Tart." Shifts the worldbuilding a bit in my mind.

My completionism is getting to me. I paid an entire audiobook credit for a book that's annoying me with side effects just because I ignored it too long to finish when it was temporarily available for free. Apparently the advertising algorithms have me figured out.

On and on with the not-Siberian not-gulag bits. I am really not in the mood for this, but it's leaving Audible Plus so I prioritized it. (And found a bunch of neglected fruit trees while hiking.)

Apparently this came out in 1998? Surprised it took me so long to pick it up.

I'd probably appreciate this more if I actually read Virgil, but I don't wanna. This is fine on its own, and the literary criticism/critical analysis between the lines is still pretty obvious.

In book 1, I was expecting badgers, and then there were none. Now it's book 2 and I was expecting recurring characters, but nope, new cast. Still good though.

I assume the next Big Reveal will be that original S can read and they've been passing notes back and forth.

Really pushing the double entendre here.

I need a glossary.

Current theory: R covered up J+L and N is the result.