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the yearning…..im sitting on the edge of my chair trying to prolong their parting by slowing down my reading…

the narrator is lowkey crazy lol checking off all the unreliable narrator boxes im more afraid of her (also going into this not knowing anything and my first thought was “damn those kids feel creepy” i really don’t work well with children in big houses 😭😭

it’s so heartbreaking to read about the parent-child relationships in this book

every time our nihilist-doctor-chemist-critical Bazarov opens his mouth i give a visceral “yucks” bcos not only is he frustratingly inconsistent and myopic he’s also just a douche

and this is why sometimes hard launching ur partner helps

okay the story is picking up its pace and mr gibson is finally Self Aware but cynthia is growing very unpleasant im still waiting for molly to fight back & stop crying…

maybe i will move away from victorian realism after this becos im so damn restless lol….i know molly is made to be loved but girl ACT UP PLEASE the only intriguing, compelling character is cynthia i guess, but her plot is so repetitive so predictable and her lines so monotonous “i know im bad ive been tossed about i wish i were good” ugh ANNND??…considering to DNF this…

i have a routine with this book: pick this up and settle into the story immediately -> so annoyed with some of these characters & molly’s sweetness i wanna strangle myself -> have to put it down after two chapters bcos my blood pressure is going UP -> can’t stand to read it for days -> gets curious again

i’ve been hesitant to pick this back up bcos it can get so exasperating I HATE CLARE OMGGGG pls gaskell let molly fight back more,,,and why is mr gibson so manipulative towards his young daughter like stop giving her cold treatment to force her into submission u are pissing me off

okay this is so unfair we are not given all the clues?!!!!!! it’s like when poirot guessed wrongly (in the third floor flat when he watched this play with hastings and lost the bet) bcos the crucial evidence is withheld from the audience…..

this is the only book that doesn’t worsen my tension headaches…also isn’t the murderer quite obvious? if my guess is wrong then i’ll blame it on the noise pollution (which IS giving me murderous thoughts poirot shld have an episode where a murder happens bcos of incessant drilling)

only two chapters in and i kinda hate clare/mrs kirkpatrick

it gets extra fun when u read it like a gay british sitcom (im watching the first episode simultaneously and stephen fry IS giving a lot of materials for this interpretation

i wanna send all my profs a copy of this lol and that self-important simpleton Walker is such an accurate caricature of some grad sch people….brought me back when someone declared “yea my arguments don’t really make logical sense but what is political theory without audacity” and i wanted to shoot myself

this is spiritually tormenting

this has a strangely nostalgic taste and im scared (in a good way

im not imagining the dom/sub eroticism between jane and rochester bcos the jane and john pair is likely set up as a comparison AHHHHH

im still withholding my judgments on rochester but damn that proposalzzzi don’t blame jane i would have folded too…(altho if i were her i’d have hated all his teasing before the proposal….man u are 38 grow up)

why are they so chill about everything eleanor is the closest to a Sane person😀😀

rochester is so nasty & unpleasant,,the ick i got from both heathcliff and him 🙂

okay i think i will end the jane austen phase after this book cos im 🫠

as always im hot & bothered by austen’s aggravating characters & scenes 👹👹👹

okay i said it’s boring but damn hector’s death still made me cry…..like ive always had a soft spot for the trojans (thanks to homeric impartiality and the aeneid) but damn….oR maybe it’s the assassin’s creed odyssey song that made me cry

i heard some podcaster comparing john thorpe with boris johnson and i can’t unsee it hes SO ANNOYING

holy thunder i am bored……..i thought i’d like the iliad more than the odyssey but at this rate im not so sure about that…….

so much goading…….and familial ptsd in the olympus lol…..also i forgot how repetitive homeric epics are

athena deflecting that deadly arrow to hit menelaus’ groin instead is lowkey hilarious like out of ALLLL the places she could’ve chosen LOL

i tried austen once when i was 11 and have since declared im not an austen girl but now on a random october day i felt this urge to read p&p (once again that random urge) and damnnnn colour me surprised

raoul u are 20 can’t you GROW UP u don’t believe in christine’s supernatural tales but u seem way too eager to invent all sorts of things against her…..men in this novel be pissing me off

okay dumas don’t piss me off what do u mean dantes suddenly rediscovers (romantic) love in the “slave” he has been seeing as a daughter (who also has serious father issues) and who’s wayyyyyy too young for him lol