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I’m reading at a such a slow pace atm it’s actually embarrassing

‘Why isn’t he like you? He’s not as good as you, even though I love him more than you.’

Talk about a dagger to the heart.

Interesting choice to not name the narrator, not sure if it will pay off

So who’s gonna be the Helene to my Jean?

Born to be a historian, forced to be a journo 😔

If your book doesn’t have chapters you’re not edgy or different, you’re just bloody annoying

Pretty magical ngl

180 pages of a mother hating her daughter, many such cases

Princess Di and John Lennon both ranked above Cromwell in a nationwide vote of the best Britons ever

We should be more embarrassed about this than we are

Donna pls move the plot on, I’m on my hands and knees begging over here

She could narrate my life and somehow make it compelling

Dominic Sandbrook > Tom Holland

‘Although their closest neighbours, the detestable French, might go in for wild gesticulations, extravagant oaths and public kissing. Britishness was supposed to be all about irony, inscrutability and self restraint.’

Emperor Claudius circa 42 AD: “Slaves, after all, are human.”

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

Not sure what sort of arc I’m on here with my reading habits but I’m having a great time

This really is rather gripping

Stayed up an hour and a half more than I intended because I couldn’t put it down

Last July I ran into a guy at a club who was my best friend until we were 12. He was obvs on an assortment of drugs and tried to get me to partake
Now my overriding memory of him isn’t playing on his trampoline when we 8, it’s him coked out of his mind while murder on the dance floor was being thumped out. My childhood memories of us don’t quite hit the same now

That’s how this book is making me feel

Feeling a great deal of empathy for Arnie, more than is typical for me. Also Dennis, let your mum have her poetry, yeah it’s shit but you shouldn’t mock your mother.

Claudius may be an unreliable narrator but he’s my unreliable narrator

Don’t marry your nieces, nephews or cousins folks

‘To a fawning fellowship
He shall stammer, cluck and trip,
Dribbling always with his lip.
But when he’s done and no more here,
Nineteen hundred years or near,
Clau-Clau-Claudius shall speak clear’