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High risk bc booker. But only shortlisted so there’s hope. Also it is giving Birnam Wood, which was excellent. There’s even a quote from 12th night at the start. Trend alert: eco activism meets Shakespeare

“Probert was a bankrupt wine-merchant of a very shifty nature…” Just hard hitting fact based reporting here.

Oftentimes gasping at how precisely she nails the act of parenting. And then in case I thought it couldn’t get any more real “… the GPS kept trying to make me turn left across six lanes of traffic out of alleys with no traffic signals.” @gbaker

Just noticed one of her other books is called Very Cold People. Which is a great title.

Crikey. Gore 🫣

Sort of not entirely sure what is going on. Which might be intentional but I suspect I am not getting things on a more superficial level. It’s actually a bit fear and loathing in Las Vegas if I recall that correctly.

I don’t know what’s worse. Agreeing to go on a mission with St John or running off to Thornfield to find Rochester. Both these men are terrible, Jane!!!!!

Truly there are some dreadful dreadful men in Jane’s life

She just forgave him immediately, “on the spot.” Jaaane! Red. Flags.

This is very MAFS Australia season 10 when Bronte (!?) is told, at her wedding, her husband has a girlfriend

Her aunt really is the worst

Are they flirting or is he bullying her about her wages

This fortune teller better tell Jane to not bother with Rochester because she can do better

I don’t understand why she has the hots for Rochester. Is it just that he is literally first man she has ever met.

So. Rochester seems like a dickhole.

We have met Rochester! Thrilling. What a mysterious beginning. Why didn’t he introduce himself.

Oh my god what a beginning. I feel things might get worse before they get better? Wait. It won’t get better will it.

Quoting 18th c poet John Clare in a letter to a friend “at my back door I have a little garden which I cram with Flowers for I am foolishly fond of them & am now ambitiously striving to be a Florist tho with but little success at present.” Relating hard.

And just like Alone, he ate something he probably shouldn’t have and is now horribly ill

Loving it. He’s the original Alone contestant.

Even when you already know the story of pest introductions it is absolutely jaw dropping to read every time

She’s off to a great start with very high praise for hoiho

Oh my god a whole chapter devoted to New Zealand hashtag proudest day

Well chapter 1 is called Maul Cops, so you know it’s gonna be good

“Roosevelt gave his horse the dramatic name Rain-in-the-Face; Hoover’s animal companion was a cat, whom he addressed as Mr. Cat.”

“Walt Whitman’s characterisation of war as ‘nine hundred and ninety nine parts diarrhoea to one part glory’ was apt well into the twentieth century.”

Manila envelopes and Manila folders get their name from the hemp sourced from the Phillipines that made paper and rope.

“Hookworms are both fascinating and deeply gross.”

Every chapter has something absolutely jaw dropping going on. From the origins of Oklahoma the musical, to the fate of the chemist who invented fertiliser (to greatly paraphrase).

This book is a giant Mansfield love fest