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$59 for 7 books at BookOutlet 🔥🔥
A Hero of our Time (Mikhail Lermontov), The Sundial (Shirley Jackson), Liaisons Dangereuses (Choderlos de Laclos), The Monk (Matthew Lewis), Phantoms (Gwendolyne Riley), The Ministry of Fear (Graham Greene), The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse)

Unfortunately The Count of Monte Cristo is way better in French. I’m having a blast

Alright that’s it I’m rereading The Count of Monte Cristo. But in French. So update y’all in 4 months probably

Sooo slow paced

Hahahahaha

This has been sitting on my shelf for everrrr, time to read

“I can save him” final boss

Slowwww start

Nabokov project? I really enjoyed Despair so I’m hoping this one is just as good 😇

Definitely finishing this today just coming on here to say no book has ever had me laughing this much

DNF The Divine Comedy just because it’s way beyond my English level, I don’t understand half of the verses and the amount of context and commentary required to understand is just too much. Will try again later, perhaps a different translation 🤔

“My chocolate is going to the devil, old girl.” 😭😭??

Saw this on Netflix and was like wait I literally have the book lemme read it and then watch the movie

Second hand book haul!
- Don Quixote
- The Divine Comedy Part II: Purgatorio (found a vintage Penguin edition. I already have part I)
- Lolita
- The Grapes of Wrath (read & loved on Kindle)
- The Pearl (also read & loved on Kindle)

Hmmm. Not that interesting to me thus far

Omg no wonder Tolstoy was excommunicated by the RO Church after publishing this, he perfectly understood the mechanics of socio-political corruption and how aristocracy gets away with committing atrocities, this is crazy.

Holy corruption

“Another corner was hung with a large icon of Jesus Christ, an essential feature of all places where people come to be tortured, and a mockery of his teaching.” p. 206 I love Tolstoy