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Dragged a bit for the first 500 pages or so, but it's really getting in a groove and I'm digging it

this book is like crack. all I want to do is talk about it but no one will listen to me.

"...they opted to call the child by his middle name, Paul. Not that Jim was initially impressed with his firstborn. 'He looked awful. Horrible, he had one eye open and just squawked all the time. When I got home I cried for the first time in years and years.' Then the infant's appearance improved rapidly, and it wasn't long before women were admiring his big eyes and long lashes." 😂

"On June 2nd 1969, Niel Aspinall sent a message to the Abbey Road department heads:

Please ensure staff are prompt each morning, recently people have been getting very tardy...and please tell the girl hiding in the lavatory that Paul never uses that one."

Very happy I picked this one back up, banged out 200 odd pages over the weekend

I'm in my Garfunkel era

He's literally me

I don't know enough about England or its monarch history to understand anything he's saying. Some of the jokes have made me chuckle though.

I know nothing and have little interest in the history of England's kings and queens. I'm really banking on my shared love of David Mitchell and history to win me over for this one.

"But an English major who knew shorthand was something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe thrilling letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters."

I am obsessed, amazing.

"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallower's sword and it made me feel powerful and god-like."

I feel like J. Robert Oppenheimer for taking a strong interest in radical, left leaning, American political ideologies.

Hopefully this doesn't come back to humiliate me in 20 years.

I wish Irish people were real

The worst part? The hypocrisy 😭