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hallmark of a great novel, about 20 pages in the characters do not feel made up already, but like real people we happen to be told a story about and absolutely everyone, even if unnamed, seems natural and real.

the way we parallel dolly’s thinning everything - her once-full hair now fine and brittle, her hands all bones, her face sunken, clearly the consequence of having seven children in nine years and raising five - with stivas consequence-less health and content youthful looks WHILE stiva keeps contemplating how dolly just isn’t ATTRACTIVE to him anymore so he cannot LOVE her… im literally gonna kill him.

ive never actually read a russian work in translation so i got no idea how the characters’ names are being translated into english and i also kind of don’t want to find out but i do hope my updates make sense to the ppl who read the novel in english😭

girl how are we three pages in and you’re already earning worst husband of the century 😭 stop talking about your wife like that before i hit your droll little face to pulp omgggg 😭😭😭

gonna need to make a new, more serious list of book i gotta read asap

someone remind me to read some dickens once we hit autumn, im kinda craving it

LITERALLY PRINCE EDWARD IS A YEAR YOUNGER THAN RICHARD AND YET HES CALLED A YOUNG LAD AND A CHILD (he’s 18 in 1471) WHILE RICHARD IS TREATED LIKE A MAN OF 30+ (he’s 19 in 1471)… like okay, bill………..

like it’s quite incredible in a way that GEORGE, who ACTUALLY betrays edward more than once bc he’s stupid and jealous, is portrayed as less evil by miles than richard, who a) i must again remind is actually a child through most of what happens during the wars and only 19 in 1471 and b) even in the play stays by his fathers and brothers sides loyally and unwaveringly and somehow he’s still portrayed as scheming

i know the changing kings back and forth every couple years must have been exhausting for the common folk but at the same time i wonder if they weren’t following the war between henry and edward with mild interest considering it WAS all very scandalous and crazy

i always wondered if the way shakespeare portrays lancaster and henry vii has to do with his living under elizabeth i… being the granddaughter of henry vii, it would make sense for william to want to show them in a favourable light… cause what is this passage about him from henry vi, a bit thick even for williams standards… idk, interesting in general, politically and socially and culturally

i sound crazy, i admit, defending a historical figure made character in theeeee shakespeares work but it must be said also that i AM kind of crazy about richard iii. i do not play about that guy. to clear things up in ways we will all understand, thats my poor little meow meow. if you catch my drift.

also have said it before and understand the impulse for continuity’s sake since he clearly wants richard to be a villain in richard iii but william is sooooooo asshole of all time for making out richard to be an evil schemer for the crown plotting his brothers murders when in reality a) richard was twelve years old when edward married elizabeth and b) richard is historically reported to have been most loyal

not edward asking elizabeth point blank if she’s dtf 😭😭😭

how do you guys feel about introductions to classic works, anyway? i tend to read them after finishing the work, usually, because i find they “spoil” not only the plot of the work but also sometimes the conclusions im meant to pull from it and im not a fan of being dictated what im meant to take from a piece beforehand but that does defeat the purpose of the introduction giving context to the work

the authors note to this… ursula is MOTHER

i need a book i can listen to while doing chores aka a book that doesn’t take up too much brain capacity to follow along with and the completionist in me feels like i should read this so that ive done the whole series. which is what ill do

knowing a language a little bit is always about wondering whether you know it enough to read a book in it… probably not but like. what if i tried though.

the trouble with reading kahneman/tversky is that they are fundamental to behavioural psychology but also like, how big is the probability of them being zionists? pretty big. troubling.

the way the first part of this is literally kahneman recounting his gay love affair with tversky sure is something

the one thing chaghan and rin being of one mind about being that altan WILL get his revenge… so true

chaghan, my baby 😩😩😩 noooooooooooo 💔💔💔

“i would have felt him go” 😀🔫🔫🔫

“she was sane, she was convinced of it” 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

kitay is right of course 😭😭😭 FACK

“someone’s gonna have to tell chaghan” well, im
Gonna Kms

he better not be actually dead im so fucking serious right now

oh nononononononononononono

😀😀😀 he’s not actually dead right 😀😀😀

finally understood who altan and chaghan remind me of… welcome back, turin turambar and beleg cuthalion!!! they better not end with one of them dying or ill kms!!!

when shiro is like “omg ALTAN! it’s really you!!!” almost threw up holy shit