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Fabulous, of course, but is it weird to wish there was more gardening? *sigh*

Cracking good start.

This was interesting. . .

It was very good. I'll try to noodle something together.

I went into this with not the highest of expectations--I think the cutesy cover fed into my doubts, but so far, it's good.

It hasn't enter Mill on the Floss territory, yet, but it is very long-winded. Interesting but character driven, not plot.

So good it makes me think I don't want to sleep, tonight.

Assembling thoughts to throw at you.

" Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."

Begins on VE Day, promising, but we'll see.

Slow start and I dawdle long enough that my library loan expired and I reentered the queue for both audio and ebook--audio came back the winner. But, the pace picked up dramatically and I was thrilled that it was less than 2 days wait.

Really enjoying this.

Ahh... the dirty laundry/money, forensic accounting is so much fun to read. Seriously, as depressing as expected.

Duality in the Baroque period; I feel as if logic and extravagance describe what I wish life was.

5 lectures completed.

Huh, very interesting and the Middle English version is so much fun to sound out and realize you understand it, but I'm going to read the modern translation before reviewing.

“I was a precocious four-year-old when I realized that my parents were locked in a contest to inflict as much harm on each other as possible without crossing over the line into fatality—just enough pure pain to trigger the excitement that only rage could bring. It was a kind of reciprocal autoerotic strangulation of the soul, and both parties were generous givers and grateful recipients.”