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what the fuck

u know what i finally understand what makes me so agitated when reading this (and some of austen’s books): FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE. this narrator in particular….one moment he’s so sarcastic the next dead serious and im so confounded by margaret’s blind self assurance because there are brilliant moments of clarity in the narration….ugh

margaret girl don’t piss me off….for someone who prizes open mindedness and nuance u sure think in binary sometimes…and no u can’t fix him so stop with ur savior complex….men aren’t projects….especially men like henry….im rage reading this book now ngl….like im sure the schlegels gonna face their consequences but im still ANNOYED

okay the schlegels are grating on me….whatever they are doing out of good will just keep perpetuating their privileged ignorance….i hOpe they face consequences soon….

i think i will turn up for dinner with swollen eyes what the hell man im beating my chest crying out loud

i think september is gonna be all about crying over ancient romans

I CANNOT SEE THROUGH MY TEARS😭😭😭😭

the shitshow is snowballing and im so weary too….only cicero’s witticism and cato’s stoicism can cheer me up…..but what a shitshow….

u need a strong Red heart to read this book because my head is spinning…it’s really letting other people’s catastrophes into ur mind and body…and morrison writes in a way that compels u to slow down and pick apart every word…so u cannot help but let the despair and self-forgetting eat into your own consciousness

heartbreaking……..it’s like glimpsing my future too….

damn if i were in 70 BC i’d be part of the mob chanting cicero too…….. 🤠

book so good i have to take a walk and finish it during my fave hours

omfg i WILL punch u archer newland

wharton pinches out the flames of conventionally melodramatic moments and leaves us in this sudden drop in temperature which is so heartbreaking…….so good….so heartbreaking….

once again, must robert harris measure out every woman’s chest size like is that his only way of describing women

i can’t unsee that one review saying bartholomew being all “im not like oThEr mediEvAL phSiciAn” so true……..also i’d appreciate if there’s no romance now that philippa has been written out of the story…unLESS these two new characters are part of the mystery hmmmm

if selden (from house of mirth) frustrated me this archer newland straight up pisses me off…..i wanna punch him and save may & ellen from him……

very raymond chandler very american noir to the point that i keep forgetting this is set in germany and is written by a british…..the raymond chandler male gaze too…from 20yo to 50yo no one can escape the male gaze!! 🤗

why do the van der luydens remind me of the volturi in twilight

ragebait book

i don’t think i’ve ever used a dictionary THIS much……..feeling very illiterate right now…..

if the murderer is who i think it is then i want a refund

okay zooey how about u stfu…………give me back franny’s part……….i hate reading americans being absolutely trash to their parents

i keep reading books where u watch disasters happen to incredibly flawed but also innocent characters….i wanted to read something similar to the go-between because i think about that book everyday but now im feeling the same agony that i felt with the house of mirth WITH the looming sense of doom in the go-between….

bangers after bangers….anyway people in this book keep falling in love with their imagination instead of the reality and all i can think of is that tiktok sound “no you don’t topper you love the idea of me”

THIS is realism…….social and psychological realism…..it itches me madddd……

it’s giving breakfast at tiffany’s lily bart is such a mood…….

keep thinking about atonement while reading this so i did some googling and ian mcewan was indeed inspired by this LOL u live and u learn

so far it’s giving catcher in the rye but make it british and im eating this up…..another stunning STUNNING book and im looking forward to the tragic??sad??devastating??turn of events with trepidation

oh look it’s marlowe the irresistible marlowe whom all women wanna sleep with and bat their eyelashes at look at him being all sexy and nonchalant and humane ohhhh won’t u give him a kiss 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄