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I truly don’t understand why this is a best-selling author

Перевантажена інформацією книга

So boooooring

Quite funny

The plot moves at a glacial pace

In the mood for gothic, but this one is quite purple

This book is a spider’s web, there are many character timelines that will probably converge somewhere in the middle. Hard to follow, with a paranormal aspect.

Супер шалена ідея: а що якщо філіппінець насправді філіппінка? Десь 100 сторінок тому Ломелі звернув увагу в його кімнаті, що бритва так і лишалась в пластиковій упаковці. Це певно має якесь значення.

At this point it seems the late Pope is manipulating the Conclave from beyond his grave

…let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance… Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and of there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.

Kyiv not Kiev, книга була вперше опублікована у 2016 році, можна вже було і правильно написати

…privately he thought the late Pope had occasionally gone too far in his endless harping on about simplicity and humility. An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one’s humility a sin.

The novel was written by a teenager and it shows: because the book only tells, tells, tells

Loretta Chase’s debut book. Now I see how much more masterful her later stories are

Such a convoluted timeline

Kinda funny but not hilarious

If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

Багато досліджень було вкладено в цю книгу, зазвичай цей жанр не копає так глибоко в економіку 19 століття, всі ці mundane details тогочасного життя роблять дану історію не просто багатошаровою, а й унікальною.

So, who died?

A never-ending book 🫠

On top of Quaker Plain Speech there is now dandy slang 🫠🫠🫠 I admire the depth of the research that went into writing this book, but it’s so hard to understand! What next? Cockney?

Тому що мати зберігаються в окремій частині мозку на відміну від решти мовлення. “Those words he knew. He could have said them, too. He’d tried it, when he was alone, a whole list of curses in English and Italian and German and French. They were like mathematics; they were right there ready when everything else was inaccessible.”

Ця книга така ж закручена, як і Hypnertomachia Poliphili, секрет якої герої намагаються зрозуміти

Oh, so it’s dark academia

Як проконтролювати у 15 столітті, чи курʼєр прочитав лист чи ні? Додати у віск печатки беладонну. Якщо у посланця розширені зіниці, значить підігрівав віск, аби розкрити лист. 🤯

I’m not sure I wish to continue. For starters, this thee-thou-Quacker-Society-of-Friends-First-Day-Ninth-Month stuff irritates me. However, Kinsale’s plots and style are always unique and the scene where the duke describes Maddy to her blind father is majestic. But the said duke had a stroke so I’m not sure I can take all this agony of recovery…

🤯🤯🤯 This book is a significant distance beyond my current comprehension.

Adore sarcasm in books

Поки не зрозуміло, що ж сталося у 1960х