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Ooooh, blackmail.

But what do you mean there's just a random poem completely in French? Ah, the delight!!!! ☺️

Got this from the thrift store today! 🥳 Where are my fellow Arabic learners? 👀

I keep reading books with delicious baked goods in them and tis making me hungry. . .

This is the one with the carnivorous sourdough starter, Precious.

The gingerbread man began to dance a very respectable hornpipe.

There is a sentient sourdough starter named Bob who eats rats. Let me repeat this.
THERE IS A SENTIENT SOURDOUGH STARTER NAMED BOB WHO EATS RATS.
In other words, I love this already. (An excellent read-aloud to younger siblings!!)

I CAN MAKE GENERAL UPDATES NOW REJOICE!!!!

AAAAHHH WHY IS IT OVER I NEED MORE GIVE ME MORE!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭

Ooh, I like the part where he becomes a human sail.

Apparently there's a word limit on status updates. Who knew? Anyhow, I feel like I should be taking this more seriously but I cannot help being tremendously amused by it.
The fact that I am writing myself a humorous little synopsis of it is probably not helping. It is incredibly fun though.

Am I the only one who finds it terribly entertaining that the whole beginning is just about how great and perfect and amazing Gilgamesh and Enkidu are and then they proceed to chop down some random forests and slaughter some folks and then the Gods are like 'woah woah woah there. One of y'all needs to die now'.

I am ADORING this one so much!!!!

The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning— poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book

I finally finished!!! And I have NO IDEA what to think. . . So, review to come. Maybe.

Ooooh. Tis plot twissssts

The sword would sever and cut and gouge, but iron couldn’t kill anything that was made from the dead. They needed to burn this thing out of its hovel.

For some reason I'm just weirdly obsessed with random sentences in this book whilst entirely ignoring the actual plot.

He shivered at the thoughts, knowing full well that violence wasn’t native to his bones.

Where is violence native to then? Is it native to his organs or appendages?

New nightly read-aloud book! 😊

This is SO helpful and written in a very engaging way as well!

I can see now why this is on all the 'villain origin story' lists. . .

I am loving this one!!!

A TOLKIEN REFERENCE!!!!
Oh how I adore them. ❤️