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Kings are the slaves of history

Andrei & Pierre boys 4 lyf

oooo baby

War is really beginning to win me over

explosive midpoint

Finding Katherine Rundell’s style a lil bit hard going which is why I’ve been dragging on this. appreciate her weaving in details from Donne’s poetry but wish there was more of it and that it was done less cursorily? I guess I don’t actually like biographies that much lol. Either way interesting dude, astounding poems, we’re teaching some in class this week so this feels topical and instructive

Starting to think I maybe should have read the other four Palliser novels before this

My favourite RMac ❤️

Lets go

Ok really not enjoying this but I’ve sunk so much time into it and feel like I need to follow through …..

Most exciting crossover event of the summer (I mean, winter)

Was not planning on rereading this trilogy but have been seized by a great yearning

Listening to Stephen Fry read 85+ hours of Sherlock Holmes and I now feel convinced that my thesis needs a Holmes interlude

Robin Hobb has written the greatest fantasy of the twenty-first century (yea I know she started in the 90s) and I will die on that hill I reckon

Shameless wodehousing about

Glad this series still lives up to my memory of it

Inordinately compelling criticism

ooh baby

I've been sleeping on Kate Atkinson, this is delightful

Have infinite time for all Jane Austen's silly billies

Why am I somehow still in the prologue of this book

Reading Patrick Melrose made me long for its spiritual predecessor