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Has the Reading Challenge thing been changed enough that now you can't see your friends' challenges? Or am I just overlooking some button somewhere? I always loved the 1/1 cheer-fest for new reading challenges!

This is a thing to be taken in doses, carefully measured to prolong its efficacy.

"He wanted to hold her so badly his skin twitched; at the thought of her, his scrotum thumped like a butter churn with its paddle in action."

🤔🤔🤔

Well I guess having unconsented to sex with the heroine is one way of ending an argument? Y-I-K-E.

Wow. I'm really struggling with this for a variety of reasons, not least of which is how how terribly structured these essays are. Stick the landing, my god.

These essays still seem to cut off right before the punch lands. Also, the repetition.

Current reflections: it feels slightly like I'm following West while she rifles through my closets; pulls out my shit to examine it and hold it up and shake it so all the crap falls out; and then tosses it over her shoulder. It's a very discordant reading experience.

Also, I wish she'd push a little harder in some of these essays? They seem to build to some grand THING but then I turn a page and: END CHAPTER

It isn't until you've unpacked your books that a house starts to feel like home. ♥ (Also how did the act of unpacking my books make my to-read stack quadruple???)

I'm in the middle of moving and so obviously my foolish brain has decided it only wants to read PHYSICAL BOOKS which have been packed. SUCK IT UP, BRAIN.

As much as I love Mrs Watson--and I do!--I can't help but be frustrated by her casting as a maternal guide to Sherlock/Charlotte. It kind of underlines a larger issue I'm having with this adaptation: the paradox of the naive detective. Just how far am I willing to suspend belief that Sherlock/Charlotte can actually solve cases when she's allegedly so inexperienced? Not far enough, it seems...

I am struggling with this. The narrative distance from Charlotte, the multitude of names without distinguishing features, and the lack of any sound investigating is making me tres disappoint.

Remember, the center of a woman is her uterus. Her crazy, crazy uterus.

Would anyone be interested in doing an Anne of Green Gables reread with me?

That moment when your email notification goes off and the dread fills your stomach as you realize A THIRD of your library holds have come in on the same day...

"And he could have used the fear of pregnancy afterward as a way to force the issue and bring her to heel." ASSHOLE SAY WHAT NOW???

"Since you seem to possess more insight into my character, my heart, and my mind than I do, why did I fall in love with you...?" GURL GET OUT: HE'S A DICK!

"Then Will showed up and ruined it." First: THAT'S WHAT THIS HERO DOES! RUIN THINGS! Second: this narration does nothing for me.

OH NO I HATE THIS HERO SOMETHING FIERCE!!

FREDDY YOU'RE WRONG NOT ALL THE MEN END UP MARRIED WHAT ABOUT COLONEL FITZWILLIAM?? GET YOUR P&P FACTS STRAIGHT MAN!

PAGE 47 & 49 ARE IDENTICAL?

I am so out of the book-circle loop! TELL ME EVERYTHING, DARLINGS.

I miss books so much; that said, moving all my books HURTS.

"Hmm. I suspect you are right. If I thought for one minute you had been dabbling in those quack remedies I heard of while in London, I would wring that dainty neck of yours." He took a step closer to her, inhaling her bluebell scent with pleasure. (GIRL, RUN AWAY.)

Oop and now her inner soul is ~naked!

There is a lot of squirming going on in the conscience department.

I MISS YOU GOODREADS. WHEN OH WHEN WILL I GET TO READ AGAIN??

I'M NOT CRYING; YOU'RE CRYING.

"She wasn't tired of her friends, but she was tired of pursuing them as though her own life were worthless." (UGLY CRYING.)

"A mood like this has to be fought. It's like and enemy with a gun," she told herself. But she couldn't seem to find a gun with which to fight. (MY FEELINGS.)