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My head knows Italy is a younger country than America but my heart wont accept it.

I think it is fascinating that the "Jubilee year" was started in 1300 to encourage pilgrims to journey to Rome (for money) and the con still continues to this day. A Jubilee for what I ask?!

Not a "Daunt books" tote bag appearance.

Them trying to figure out the circle line from Paddington to Victoria is cracking me up as that was an exact conversation I had 2 weeks ago. 🤣

I'm looking forward to selling this right winged grandparents this holiday season...

Chapter 23:Obama is sick of Republicans shit.

"I wonder when such a sizable portion of the American Right had become so frightened and insecure they completely lost their minds."

My dad is rolling over in his grave learning that he and Obama both agree Fiats are shitty cars

Burn it all to the ground. We need to start again.

😑 <-- my face when it is revealed they live in outerspace.

Michelle threatening to not vote for Obama during his first congress run is iconic.

Take a shot* everytime:
Grey smirks or grins
Nadia refers to him as the "glassblower's son"

*of chocolate milk because reading with the niece.

It is always the Medicis causing all the problems.

Fucking Biden could have just kept his mouth shut and she most likely would have won the election.

Definitely shouldn't have started this right before heading back to England. 🫠

For those wondering (because apparently there are some of you) this is WAY more stressful than the first one.

In a book published in 1937:
"I wonder if we will have a general election over this Palestinian business?"
"Whole thing's been badly mismanaged".

In case you were wondering how long england has been handling this wrong.

Not Edward VIII actually keeping the throne 🤣🤣

"Put that in your pipe and smoke it"
"I do not smoke the pipe."

Oh how I have missed Poirot.

Finding out there is dirty Ghostface fanfiction out there in the world is not what I was expecting to learn from this book.

Dewey should be the killer in movie 7.
Make it happen Craven.

"Humans are writhing worms. Rooting about to feel anything at all."

Where is the lie.

I went from having very low respect for Alice to thinking "wow, mad respect Alice" over the course of 2 chapters.

Every time I recognise a Yorkshire accent, I thank Maggie Smith.

Travlling with Leela sounds an awful lot like my Scotland experience last year.
Solo Traveling for the win!

Forever haunted by George IV and his lack of legitimate heirs.

Napoleon believed in vaccinations. So maybe, just maybe, he isn't the bad guy everyone wants you to think he is.

"I'm becoming old and want some rest"- Napoleon age 35.
Relatable.

Not the British telling Napoleon to reinstate the Bourbons only for him to respond "after you reinstate the Stuarts"
The shade.

I just find it SO interesting how everyone has a lot to say about the British and their museum, but no one says a god damn word about the French... unless it is to praise how wonderful the Louvre is.
"Be so for real right now" 😑
Don't even get me started on the Germans.