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“My child was born on the anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. I remember thinking of the painting, a weeping mother holding her dead child. Although my arms would be empty and I wept, my child would love, was healthy, and would be well cared for. I trusted and believed that with all my heart.”

I saw this painting in Madrid and after reading this, it’s safe to say its impact is multigenerational.

Not done yet and I already miss this book 3

I just had to finish Part I/II and wow that was a mistake (I am SICK and won’t be able to sleep now… Thank you Lily King and ****). Wowww.

Torn between not wanting to put this down and not wanting to finish it!!

Yeah so I completely love this book. It makes me sick because I wish I would have majored in English in college but the beauty of books is that by reading I get to experience that in a way.

Normally I try not to stop reading in the middle of a chapter, but I wanted to continue so badly that I let myself break this rule. Really enjoying this.

“Guido had gone to law school, had put in several years at a Wall Street law firm, and had discovered that his heart was not in his work, and so he had come back to graduate school to study Romance languages and literature.”

Is this my future?? One chapter in and I am sensing this book will be saving me from my reading slump. I guess I needed a yearning man plot.

After reading the first chapter I have two qualms: First, I am seeing a lot of trees but no forest… This might be a me problem but it is hard to stay engaged with such detailed writing when it is hard to attach the details to a clear plot. Second, and maybe this will change as the book progresses, there is no clear character to follow and apparently I need a protagonist to be interested.

Simultaneously listening to the audiobook narrated by Aimee Lou Wood! (I wouldn’t understand half the dialogue without the audiobook)

Propitious: favorably disposed toward someone (archaic)

Iniquitous: grossly unfair and morally wrong

“‘To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!—Do not wish me such an evil.’”

“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” (pg. 27)