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I was struggling with a bit of a mental health crisis when I started this, and I think I picked the perfect book to help me get through this episode of My Brain is a Jerk

Yes, that's right, more Heyer. Will this phase last me until I get to the last of the titles lingering on my (physical) to-read pile? I don't know. But I'm close, only one left after this one!

"Put a stick between your legs and you'll have a horse worthy of you."

Man I really have to be in the right mood for this one and I just have not been lately

Remember when classic romance novels were all digitized en masse and no one bothered to check formatting before posting them? This book is reminding me

I don't want to read either of the easier reads on this week's book agenda so going for a translated classic instead (still seems weird to me that books published in the 1980s are now considered classics!)

It is rare to find fungal horror that's actually this scary!

Ok this is really good

I'm not sure I'm in the right mood for this but maybe

100 pages left!!! I am almost done!!!!

In the final stretch

You know that thing where you read a book and wonder if it had an editor? About once a chapter the author uses a word that is clearly the wrong one--obsession instead of vendetta, that kind of thing. And it would be such an easy fix... so why wasn't it?

200 pages to go!

I am so ready to be done with this book

I picked this up because I'm on a Weird books in translation kick, and this definitely fits the bill

This is such a fun book and I look forward to feeling well enough to enjoy it

I want to like this book but I'm really losing steam. It is interesting but needs to be cut by 600 pages

I have reached book 2! Now we get to the war (also I did not know Germany was viewed as kind of useless during this time period, militarily speaking)

Forcing myself to slow down so I don't gulp this whole thing at once

Sometimes you just want a book where you don't have to think

I'm almost halfway through, and at this pace should be done by April, but also feel like it's going to take me the rest of the year to finish this!

Slow progress is still progress!

500 pages in and not even halfway through. What a book

I think sometimes maggots can be effective at treating wounds but I would be a lot more freaked out to wake up and find them on me than this guy is

TIL that I live in the same climatic category as Moscow! (Much of northern US and the populated parts of Canada east of the Rockies have the same type of climate)