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I think an understated issue with this is the inconsistent formatting. You've got four sections of your books to keep track of yet can't be bothered to have actual chapters/sections for all of them, nor make them approximately the same length at all. I realized biographies were not really huge back then and standards were low but damn

Trying this new strategy where I track my progress on this book specifically because oh my god my attention span on this has tanked in the past two months

I get this far in and I'm just now learning that her skating routine is to fucking Clair de Lune? Literally no other songs could come to mind?

Hm perhaps I should not have been reading this out in public

Having a hockey fan as a roommate for three years has had the unfortunate effect of me knowing there are no DI hockey programs in California and it's making me go 🤨 through a lot of this

How am I reading a 230 year old page-turner wtf

How is Hester and Richard the messiest relationship that I've seen in a book in recent memory

Crumbling ramparts??? Say less

Cool to see how well Radcliffe expresses how these characters have no control over their own destinies and are at the whims of their benefactors. If the Gothic part of the novel doesn't live up to its reputation as a horror book then I think that part of it certainly will

About time somebody died, I'm not sure I could take many more descriptions of gaily frolicking in the natural beauty of the Pyrenees

If this book is already starting to reach the point of having too many heart-to-hearts between characters then I fear for what the future holds

I'm still so confused why her parents named her January like you can't even shorten that to something normal

awful lot of carousing going on

going from gravity's rainbow to YA stuff like this that takes zero effort to process is just straight dopamine like this must be how 5th grade me felt when the tests said i was at a 7th grade reading level

I'm finding the issue with postmodern literature like this is I genuinely cannot tell how much of this sexual fantasy stuff is satire and how much of it is legitimately just a normal thing that an author from the 20th c has on their mind

Wild going from stories about men forced to work the rocket programs for Germany while their families are in the concentration camp next door and then the next page we've got Tyrone going on a comic book adventure to recover a bunch of weed while dressed with the cape and helmet and everything

Thinking about how both wonderful and horrid it is that English is such a bastardized language that you can just add basically whatever adjective you want to a noun and it'll make some amount of sense

Lord help me the postmodern parasites in me are hungry

Well that escalated quickly

Oh fuck yes now these are some *spicy* character flaws, unfortunately I would never fit into this community because I'm perfect in every way

So fucking funny how pathetic Fred Vincy is bro has no emotional control

I've accidentally hit the "I'm already halfway through, I should just speed up my pace and finish the book quicker" phase, but if it means glancing past the weeds of the political differences between the Whigs and Reformists in 1831, it's almost certainly for the better

Gotta get me a man who knows as much as Eliot about religious doctrine and drama in provincial England in the early 1830s

I appreciate that Eliot is legitimately using all 900 pages of this to add depth to all of the characters, Dorothea is already perhaps one of the most complex characters I've ever read about and there's still over half of this book left