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Extremely well crafted, beautifully written (if you can call a lot of the gore writing beautiful), fascinatingly told. The audio production for this was excellent- one of the best I have listened to. I just can’t fully get into the horror of it all, but a great tale about America for sure.

I’m DNF-ing this one. Just not doing it for me, as the characters aren’t worth the slow nature of the story.

Putting this away for now- I haven’t listened to it in week & haven’t wanted to, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I am listening to this very intermittently & with very little recollection of what happened in book 1, & with a lot of smooth brain happening with regards to any lore stuff or political stuff happening here, so we’ll see how long this takes 😂

DNFing at p. 80- not my bag!

In my George Villiers era

Comfort reading before going back to work.

I swear this book is really good- it is just taking me forever to read!

This book is SO LONG. Edit, people!

I’m DNF-ing this about a third of the way in. Interesting premise, but the writing does not live up it- mostly boring, unfortunately.

Back on my nonfiction resolution after many more than 5 novels...

Technically I read 6 works of fiction since my last nonfiction, not quite following my 5:1 ratio. However, one of those novels was a reread for feminist book club, & the Agony & the Ecstasy might as well have just been a biography of Michelangelo. So I feel I am still keeping to the spirit of my resolution.

Today, on Michelangelo’s birthday, I read the part when he finished the David! & about his cranky feud with Leonardo Da Vinci! I love his cranky moodiness!

250 pages in, & Michelangelo still hasn’t sculpted anything really famous yet. But the description of his clandestine, middle-of-the-night cadaver dissections was fascinating. Also all the Medici stuff is giving me flashbacks to Da Vinci’s Demons, clearly the most authentic representation of Renaissance Florence ever created.

Rereading this for Feminist Book Club bc I zipped through it so quickly I don’t really remember much.

Well, I finished part 1, & a)Scorpius is my favorite, somehow. 2) I'm dying to know how they do spells, & invisibility cloaks, & polyjuice onstage Gamma) well shit, I suspect I'll be staying up late to finish this!

How could I refuse a book billed as "Walt Whitman & his 'boyfriend' solving mysteries & dealing with grave robbers in 1840s New York?"

To be fair, I won this book free in an Instagram giveaway. Not something I'd usually choose, but why the hell not!

Nothing like having your heart broken the moment your Thai food delivery arrives

Already in love. Do not want to work, do not want to stop reading.

Going in on all things Holmes before the Sherlock special

Already a little suspicious

Well, I never read Daniel Deronda but I certainly watched that Masterpiece Theatre with Hugh Dancy.