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I feel like I’m being ragebaited every time I pick up this book but like in the best way possible because I love it so much but why does every man in this series make me so maddddd just listen to the GIRLS

I want to sit back and relax and enjoy my evening when all of a sudden I hear this agitating grating voice— Jonas. God damn I hate that man and we’re still getting his POV?!

“Assure yourself that I desire nothing more ardently, than to pour forth my thanks at your feet, and to offer those vows which are so justly the tribute of your charms and accomplishments. […] I burn to tell you, in person, how much I am, my sweet girl, your grateful admirer, Orville.” (286-287)

They just don’t yearn like this anymore, man

Clement and Captain should be exiled from society for their highwaymen scheme because that, my friends, is men once again taking a joke too far at the expense of a woman.

“We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather, so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go, you will be frightened to hear it,— till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.” (43)

I feel your pain Evelina, 11pm is bedtime!

I’m being responsible and not pulling an all-nighter to finish this book… but just know I really want to

“‘the number of women publishing increased around 50% every decade starting in the 1760s’. Yet most were dismissively called… “scribblers”, as opposed to authors. This new term…rapidly attracted gendered connotations referencing women writers, whose work might be popular, but was beneath serious consideration. Often their books were novels. In fact, women wrote more than 50% of novels published.”

Wanted to pick up a new fantasy book today, did what I usually do and open any of the books on my tbr and read the first page…. Either my eyesight is that of a 90 year old woman with cataracts or the publishing industry needs to stop making books with -11 size font because I flipped through 6!!!!! Fantasy books on my shelf and genuinely thought I’d need a magnifying glass to read them

Working in retail means don’t get time to read the fun holiday books until the Christmas season is actually over