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Not sure I’ve ever read an obligatory marriage trope facilitated by a rogue cat 😽 Scratch that: I am sure

🥹 these two precious little cinnamon rolls 🥹

One chapter in, and I’m grinning already 😆 Sometimes debut authors are worth taking a chance on!

Oh sure, let’s have some pirates 🏴‍☠️
One thing I will say about this series, it definitely doesn’t tread the same ground twice 😂

When your heroine simultaneously lives in 1861 in Washington, 1941 and is being pressured to go to Hawaii, and 2001 with connections to the Pentagon. 😵‍💫🤦‍♀️ I have to admire the… ambition… of this plot. It’s also kind of stressing me out

What a remarkably good audiobook experience this is all turning out to be ☺️

This has a lovely feel so far!

This is HILARIOUS

I’m not an audiobook person but I’m genuinely sold on this one… Genevieve Gaunt is making some solid choices with her character voices… so far Agnes is my favorite 😂

This is utterly charming 😍

It brings the 18th century delightfully near and down to earth when she dates her letter “March the Somethingth.” 😆 girl, we’ve all been there

Yesssss Netgalley came through! 🙌🙌

This is delightful! Why have I never read this before? It’s amazingly like the Mrs Tim book by DE Stevenson that I just finished reading. So chatty! So amusing!

"Before the Wilks sale, the record price for a Gutenberg Bible was £215. Sir Thomas planned to bid up to an astounding £300. When Davidson outbid him, Sir Thomas was not pleased. Caught in the urgency of the moment, Sir Thomas started placing bids way beyond his carefully planned limit. Between the two, the price just kept galloping toward the horizon like some gorgeous, financially unconcerned unicorn." 😂

Re-reading this after having had the pleasure of watching the new miniseries on Masterpiece.

This setup has so much fun potential!!

John Green is truly one of our greatest living writers 🥹
I’ve only read the introduction and the eloquence already has me with a lump in my throat

This is so good 🤯

I enjoyed revisiting a Thrush Green book so much a few weeks ago that I've decided to do a leisurely reread from the beginning 😍

”This book, therefore, is not so much a biography of the Brontes as a book about biography, a metabiography.”

Me over here clapping my hands in nerdy excitement about the metabiography 👏🏻👏🏻😍

Albert watched closely from behind a tombstone erected to 'Ezekiel West 1798-1860, Beloved By All' (an assertion which Albert had always considered unduly optimistic)

I'm re-watching Emma and I've had the startling revelation that Mr. Woodhouse is now the character I relate to the most. 😳

She has the cat, after all!"

(Fair enough 😂)

"Benedict is the chief of staff and casts a shadow wherever he goes. He is the fly at every picnic, the storm cloud on every sunny day. Benedict Kincaid is the living, breathing embodiment of the four horsemen of doom.”

...methinks the MMC is entering the chat 😂

Reasons why I love Charlotte: She once signed a letter, “Yours, somewhat irritated, C.B.” and I felt that 😂

He paused, and gestured towards the window. “That window. The ratio between its height and width is phi. 1:1.618. Much of the Edinburgh New Town is the embodiment of that ratio. Phi is ubiquitous.”
“All very interesting,” said Domenica. She and Angus had discussed phi before; you could not be married to a person for long before discovering their views of phi.

"I have the assurance of Dr Héger of Brussels that Miss Brontë's correspondence with his father no longer exists."

Okay, Shorter, I'm coming for your Bronte biography next in my lineup because I'm bound to be irked by what I know of your questionable ethics in appropriating artifacts, and may as well get this out of the way.

Re-read completed for the big group Emma readalong happening this year 😄