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October 1 is Threshing Day. Gotta get ready!!!!

Someone told the author to kill her darlings and she took that to heart. I hope this is a reincarnation story.

Seriously want to punch Diem in the left tit.

JFC, Diem! Did you learn nothing from the godstone incident!?! Every time she touches her mark and throws herself a pity party and continues to make the wrong fucking choice, I want to yeet her into the Sacred Sea.

It’s finally here!!!!!

Book 4 coming to my mailbox in T-5 days!!!!

I cannot emphasize how precious this series is!!!

This book is at its best in Scotland. And they are finally going back! Their Parisian friends just don’t live up to Rupert & the gang

Probably the most romantic thing Jamie has ever said to Claire is when he protested the waxing of her leg and armpit hair

Bambleby’s own chapter has sufficiently won me over to his charm. The author aced writing his voice —really captured his overly pampered narcissism that is somehow endearing, perhaps because underneath it all he has a very slight sliver of selflessness.

Why does non-fiction move so slowly!?! How does this mange to be both interesting and boring at the same time?

Fabian’s friends won me over by 2nd Budget Brunch. I want in on their friend group.

Wow that was quite some character set up for Ryan. 😬

Oh, goody! Violet has transformed in full-tilt martyr sacrificing herself for the greater good on a whim and little to no information. Sounds like a trap other more knowledgeable people warned her about.

29% in and wondering why I have to yet to have Teddy Hamilton’s voice in my ear.

I blame this book (and Netflix) for my reading slump. I felt the full 10 years of passage while listening to the Odyssey

I’m hooked!

I wanted to read the classics, I said. And so I am, but at what cost? Perhaps it was better in the original Ancient Greek?

The gang is doin a lil island hopping. They almost get eaten by a giantess (I think?). Then they barge in on a woman living alone in the woods, who turns them into pigs. Ody manages to get a secret potion that makes him impervious to her charms and pig-binding spell. She lets them go, but first makes them go to the land of the dead.

Book 9: after leaving Troy, Ody & co. go to the island of the lotus eaters, where half of his men get high and join a cult? Meanwhile, Ody & co. check out the cave of the Cyclops, where they just help themselves to all his fancy goat cheeses. But Cyclops finds them and eats them for snacks. Ody gets Cy drunk and blinds him and then they escape via goats. Cy asks Poseidon to punish Ody, and Poseidon’s like BET.

Book 8: Odysseus eats dinner at the local King’s house, where the entertainer be strumming his pain with his fingers, singing his life with his words. So the King is like, uh, why you crying friend? And Oddy is like, sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a boatload of entitled men.

Book 6: in which Athena saves Odysseus from Poseidon’s wrath and safely shipwrecks him on an island. Book 7: I have lost the plot. But maybe the king of the island wants Odysseus to stay and marry one of his daughters. And Athena plays every other minor character in the crowd.

Book 5: Zeus sends Hermes to Calypso, telling her that while kidnapping Odysseus is all in good fun, it’s time to let him go back home to his wife. To which she says, fine…but he can only leave in a raft. Odysseus is like wtf? And Calypso says, thems the rules, but here’s a new wardrobe and let’s fuck for the road. Poseidon finds Odysseus and says fuck that dude and tries to kill him with a storm.

Book 1-3: Odysseus is being held captive by Calypso. Meanwhile, his wife Penelope is plagued by suitors, who say Odysseus is prolly dead & she should get over him by marrying one of them. To which she says, yeah, sure, but let me finish this death shroud first, so all this thread don’t go to waste. His son TC can’t get no respect & is taking a boat to go look for his father before he agrees to a new step-daddy.

As the Count reads through Montaigne, I feel his struggles viscerally. Take your own advice, and pick up the pace, Townes.

Carter is an absolute man boob.

I’m ready for a good challenge already.

Why is this so slow?

Sloooow burn