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I've got big thoughts about this book. Not all of them good. And that includes the quality of said thoughts. Because like my grandfather before me, "I just ain't that smart."

The writing is really good, but I just do not have any sympathy for rich people.

Oh, your husband cheated on you? I hope your pillows are soft as you cry yourself to sleep in your house on Martha's Vineyard.

This guy does suck though. She said she never saw any red flags and then goes on to describe how awful they both are.

"This tool kit also comes in handy if the previous male has resorted to another trick: plugging up the female's genital opening. The gambit is only partially effective, as male number two simply uses his scrapers, pike poles, and hooks to remove the bung."

Truly glad I've only come across knotting in modern romance. Ali Hazelwood can write a good story about werewolves, but let's leave insects out of it.

"A while later, when the prince had finished receiving"

Pretty fun book, but despite that one sentence, it's not *that* type of book...

God damn do I enjoy a book without quotation marks. You could probably give me a copy of Morning Glory Milking Farm with all the quotes deleted, and I'd assume it was written by Shakespeare.

"The Original Uncut Version" I don't know Bobby, maybe you should have listened to your editor about cutting out those 70,000 words.

This is really testing my rules about when to DNF a classic or book club pick. Some pretty good writing (if a bit sexist/dated) hidden in an absolute slog of bullshit.

Reading this because part of it takes place at a wedding in Cancun, and I happen to be going to a wedding in Cancun next month. But the wedding is terrible, and a character has a broken ankle from training for a marathon, so now I'm getting nervous.

There are so many characters and they are all slightly older than me so it feels like I'm reading about all of my cousins if my family was much richer.

This book is insane.

"But no man could do for me what a plane could. What man could propel himself to a speed of 150 knots before lifting us to an altitude of 37,000 feet?"

There's a decent chance I DNF this book 100+ pages in. Miller is a great writer, but holy shit it's getting depressing.

Not a spoiler, it's all on the jacket, but this guy is pretty cool and lovable, but he also cheats on this wife and then dies. I'm not sure if I have 200 pages of depression in me right now, especially when there's a book about a lady who marries a plane just waiting for me at the library.

"Plants and mycorrhizal fungi are promiscuous: many fungi can live within the roots of a single plant, and plants can connect with a single fungal network. In this way a variety of substances, from nutrients to signaling compounds, can pass between plants via fungal connections."

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was reading a book about SOCIALISM!

"Just as one should purchase new underwear in a new relationship, Sabine encouraged new bedding on a new house, even if the house was an ancient, crumbling ruin."

Been a while since I've been in a new relationship, so news to me.

This book is very weird and very funny so far.

"She had once been beautiful, thought Bud. Still was. Though "beautiful " seemed too small to contain her. Miss Winkle held multitudes."

This book is delightfully weird and funny.

"The first one, involving sodomy, was an actual criminal offense at the time; the second, incest with his sister Augusta, not actually illegal as such but considered equally shocking."

Wild, but also, wouldn't expect anything less from that bastard George III.

"When he was done he looked down upon some twenty books lying at his wife's feet. ... If you love me at all you'll put up with your, twenty-four, forty-eight hours, that's all I ask, then it'll be over, I promise, I swear!"

Ain't that the dream, Montag, reading 20 books in two days?

The ISBN seriously couldn't have 451 in it anywhere, you coward publishers