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Someone needs to start treating Ludo like a child because he comes across like an adult and if he were an adult then I would hate him but he’s literally 6 years old so I don’t want to hate him but I do

I feel like I‘ve learned more about the etymology of German compound nouns than about the main character

The fact that Akbar Shamji has just a normal LinkedIn profile makes me feel sick to my stomach

I don’t think I have the constitution to be a gangster criminal, just in case anyone thought maybe I did

There is simply nothing less sexy than consummating a loveless royal political marriage, blegh

June is so unlikeable it’s actually crazy

The gender politics are craaaaaazy but I can’t tell in which direction. I think it’s ultimately good??? Maybe??

One of these days I’ll find an audiobook that doesn’t make me cry at work

One of these days I’ll find an audiobook that doesn’t make me cry at work

Finally into it now

Thought I could make it through unscathed but I’m officially for real sobbing :(

Reading this at the same time as Hamnet is so crazy specifically with the politics of pregnancy/childbirth: women are often only valued for their motherhood, which can be both a prison sentence and a key to freedom… interesting

Prepping to see John proctor is the villain !!

Audibly gasped at the reveal that Brendan Hughes was doing the Belfast Project….. what happened to his & Gerry Adams’s solidarity 🥺

Bobby sands 😢

Going to the theater to see a show in the imperial capital of the world on a rare night off less than 24 hours before committing a terrorist attack on that very same imperial capital… I mean there’s a poetry to it somehow

“He felt like Hamlet, just moping around waiting for the world to assuage his grief, perpetually soliloquizing and fainting while everyone else fed him bananas and candy bars. Hamlet died at the end, of course.” Oh my GOD

Can’t stop watching the 1983 performance of At the Ballet

As a fellow American currently in the thick of the rat race of grad school at cambridge I think there should be a disclaimer at the beginning of the book that actually this is Too Real And Accurate and also Too Scary for my delicate eyes

A beautiful spontaneous romantic little 1v1 strangulation self-defense class montage scene <3

Just read three straight pages of absolutely savage scathing gossipy descriptions of 1,000 beautiful women’s college alums and honestly I wish it were longer

nobody told me that middle-English toxic masculinity told by a feminist scholar could be FUNNY

I know I’ve made like zero progress since my last update but it’s just so crazy to me how somehow the act of reading the book is giving me the same feeling as if I were living the plot, like the addiction to incomprehensible knowledge is crazy and it can’t be described it has to just be felt