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Never thought I would say this but poor, maligned Moriarty!

All Enola's complaints about spending money and "frittering away" her small fortune would hit a lot harder if she wasn't also maintaining an ENTIRE RESIDENCE complete with 3 servants on the side.

I am slogging through this one. If there weren't so many high ratings, I'd be tempted to DNF. But maybe it picks up?

This whole "I take you into the woods and tell you to run" date is NOT convincing me that this man is not a serial killer.

Honestly, that'd be a promising twist at this point.

I’m keeping an open mind, but so far the absence of plumber jokes feels like they really let that premise go down the drain.

I don’t pretend to know anything about plumbing but I am 83% certain that turning the sink off does not prevent water from pouring out of broken pipes onto the floor.

Guy: Let me open that jar for you.
Girl: * opens it herself *
Guy: I was mesmerized by her self-sufficiency. She'd clearly been fending for herself for a long time. But that was chased by an irrational spike of anger at whoever it was that gave her that haunted look. At whoever had chased her away. Or maybe she'd never needed help opening jars.

Sir, you need a nap. And maybe to touch grass.

"Mitchell Harrington had taken a sledgehammer to these pipes. I should have been terrified. Maybe I was. My heart was certainly thundering against my ribs. But I knew, without a doubt, that he'd done this to get me back here."

GIRL, that's not a "but." But nothing.

That is an "And..."

As in, "And I knew I was getting my butt out of here" because that behavior is PSYCHO.

Have you all heard of World of Books?? Because I just discovered it and my bank account will never recover. Nor will my bookshelves.

Just discovered my library has this as an audiobook on actual, physical CDs. Thank goodness I drive an old car and still have a CD player! I knew it wasn't just because I was broke.

Is it bothering me that I haven't finished a book in 2026 yet? No, not at all.

* aggressive eye twitch *

Goodreads really be like:

We're making a change to direct messaging! You can't do it. :)

Oh, she has to become the king's special friend to break the curse?

I have concluded I don't really want to read a book. I want to review a book. But to review a book I first have to read a book and that just seems excessive.

Going on vacation and only bringing my Kindle so I decided to prepare by picking a few books to download.
64 books later and I just want moreeeeeeeeeee.

I am not going to read them all. It is purely about acquisition at this point.

Me: This book is absolutely brilliant and I am going to buy it for all my female friends.

Also me: I am done. I am not engaged. I do not want to read more. That was nice.

And back to the library it goes. Eventually I will finish. Probably.

Back to toiling away at this one. The content isn’t that bad, it is how *repetitive* the content is.

Spring/summer cleaning and I keep stumbling on little stacks of books I've piled up around the house like a squirrel hoarding treats for the coming winter.

I'd get a lot farther in this book if I kept forgetting about it, re-reading the introduction to orient myself, then returning it to the library.

I know I don't read these books for their well-founded accuracy. But a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice deciding she can't support a man's parole before the case even happens because "she'd helped put him away" sounds like a MASSIVE conflict of interest. I'm not saying I'm on the side of the guy sending death threats, but I am questioning her objectivity here.

But hear me out: what if we didn’t make sweeping generalizations about women based on fringe psychotic cases.

I feel like this book is doing a great job making the case for why we shouldn't entrust 17 year olds to save the world.

It occurs to me in the amount of time it has taken me to read this book I could have birthed a child and sent them to Hogwarts.

I have apathetically tried to read this book numerous times over the last decade and never got past the 50% mark. Maybe if I mark it currently reading I'll actually be motivated to finish.

Am I enjoying this book? Eh.
Do I thoroughly appreciate a good G.K. Chesterton nod? Heck yeah.

You might be thinking, "Amy, wasn't your goal this year to read 25 books over 700 pages? Aren't you falling behind?" And the answer is yes but there is a reason I have not read these long books before. They are boring and I have the attention span of a squirrel.

I can safely say that I have never thought about pee as much as Beauvoir has.

This book is basically the first book except the main couple has only known each other a month instead of a decade and THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT BETTER.

“He rarely slept.”

Bro, you drink coffee on the middle of the afternoon. That isn’t you being broody. That’s you needing less caffeine.