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Okay it’s been a while when the first few pages of a book utterly grip me and pull me into a story so well!

“But we are all living in a Matrix-like world controlled by Big Food, and all the other bigs: Big Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Online (aka Amazon); we’re so deeply embedded in it–and the larger capitalist framework that has given birth to these monopolies– that we can’t see that there is another, more equitable way to organize our society”

“What a horrid violation this, of all the laws of gallantry and respect, which decree a lover to suffer whole years in silence before he declares his flame to the divine object that causes it: and then with awful tremblings and submissive prostrations at the feet of the offended fair!”

Arabella not trusting men because they don’t yearn like fictional heroes ugh I love her she’s so funny

Just finished the chapter on Charlotte Lennox so now I get to go and read the Female Quixote!

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