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On to pan roasting!

Bueller......Bueller.............

Let's hope I don't take 90 days to get through this

Color me surprised, except not really since it makes perfect sense for the genre

You've heard of Secondhand Embarrassment - now get ready for Secondhand Insecurity

My internet-rotted brain every time I glance at the title:
"Rebecca, it's not what you think!"
"I won't hesitate, bitch!"

I am confusion

Chapter 18 at the Netherfield Ball AKA The Elizabeth Bennett Torture Chamber

Can't tell if I find this writing deeply intriguing or just pretentious. We'll see!

Seems like any European book written in the 19th century will, without fail, reference Napoleon at least once

Follow this up with "you seem to rate a human soul at about the same value as a boiled turnip"

BYEEEEEE

"The question is: what is a dead soul worth, and is it of any use to any one?" is too great a quote for the context of the conversation it's in

So THAT'S where that title comes from holy crap--

Ready to let another Russian writer into my heart again 🥺

Gaston Leroux really did just take Erik and make him Polish and not musically inclined, renamed him Serge, and thought no one would catch on huh

In the Afterword and John definitely ain't dead so what gives

Well that's fucked

If Amy's gone for good I'm gonna be PISSED -- this book is NOT titled "Amy Dies at the End"!!!!

Once again liking John and thinking he's a more interesting, redeemable character than Dave

Read about Todd this morning and that might be the detail of this book that messes me up the most

Me: Oh boy, this John guy is quite the character! I hope nothing happens to him :)

Morgan Freeman: He's dead.

Me: Shit. I should have known.

I can tell I'll like a book if it features the phrase "She burst into snakes" nonchalantly.

Rules of the Game: Okay cool I'm enjoying this meta conversation about the genre but wish it wasn't so steeped in the author's personal tastes and --
The Murder Market: Oof--very outdated and dull and---
Friends and Foes: okay COME ON Haycraft this isn't content

my dude Howard is adding a lot of titles to my TBR but he has got to be English with his blatant disrespect of some of my faves. Plus I've already found one bit of his that's just plain incorrect soooooo

Had to smile at the Betteredge reference in the foreward :)

I...think I need a week to recover...

And we're just gonna have a TIMESKIP there!??!?