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For crying out loud this is making me want to pick up Robert Browning

Please stop going on about Chatterton, I have enough poetry on my tbr already

“devastated and excruciated with bad and repeated puns”

I need to save that phrase for when someone asks me what my brother’s sense of humor is is like.

This is an excellent book but my goodness I’m tired of having to read the n word over and over and over again

Ah, Vendéan war crimes again…

Crimes like this remind one just how necessary the feminist movement was

I keep getting startled by the way he refers to Ukrainians as “Little Russians.”

Why the HECK do I keep getting reminded of my brothers in the worst possible books to do so?

Yikes what a dreadful way to lose one’s brother

Orpheus and Eurydice!

Mention of the old article that sent me down the rabbit hole which led to picking up this book!

This book has a lot of merit but I’m going to dnf for the time being. Certain themes and events have really started to remind me of what’s going on in the Middle East right now, and my mixed but strong emotions on the matter have made reading extremely difficult (especially knowing this book has a pretty grim ending). I’d still recommend it though!

Recommended by pastor

Boethius is still depressed and Hugo is currently detailing war crimes, so I'm counting on Pushkin's typical lightness

Hugo is currently saying a lot of things that I think are very wrong but he's saying them so beautifully that I'm enjoying reading anyway

Dang, this guy is manipulative.

Saint-Malo! I was not expecting to encounter that town again!

Okay yeah Eugénie is attracted to women, I was being wilfully ignorant back when I read this in middle school

It appears the word "beefy" was used, in its modern sense, in 1880.

Now Pascal is just sounding like my dad when he's mildly annoyed with me

The mention of a brain having cells startled me; it seems reading Dante had made me forget that modern science can coexist with literature

It's rather startling how much of my personal angst this speaks to

It's one thing to personify a violin, but quite another to violinify a person

Hard to be more unequivocally gay than namedropping Antinous

Try as I may, I can't stop imagining the John Ratzenberger-voiced school of fish from Finding Nemo

filioque makes a cameo

The Morrel section is as excellently-done as I remember, but it still feels implausible for a seventeen-year-old, with a fiancé, to be so ignorant of "les dangers que pouvait courir une jeune fille de son âge." Maybe upper/middle-class girls really were that sheltered back then...

I'd forgotten just how much of a archetypal cinnamon roll Dantès is at the beginning

I don't think five years in Maryland is enough to pick up a noticeable southern accent, especially not if you're 38, but I guess I get the symbolism

Dana and Kevin sort of remind me of Johnathan and Mina Harker right now?