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I can’t lie - I’m 65% of the way through and none of the characters have properly met yet, definitely a slow burn.

Once 50 or so pages in, I was struck by how similar her thoughts and actions were to my own at the same age. What an odd feeling that I am older than she was, and view her writings with such a lens - while simultaneously I am so very much younger. Nonetheless, I found that it has dragged much less from pages 150 onwards (notably once we've begun the topic of love and romance).

I am up to Chapter 6 - "Bloodery". Most recently, we have covered his time at preparatory school and his gradual distancing from Christianity. Furthermore, his discovery of "joy" in Northern literature and belief.