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Would not recommend starting this unless you are immediately ready to be sad for dog

I forgot that I can get serious second-hand stress from an Austen book — is that how you know she’s a master?

Also, if I was Fanny I fear that I would simply resort to VIOLENCE if harassed like this

Someone get this poor girl a restraining warrant

Started reading this in its entirety as well so it’s going on the list!
Really like how much actual camping advice they have in here; I thought it’d be just recipes but it’s a lot more practical

I can’t properly explain how cool this scene was but Sidney unlocks his highly competent persona after downing that brandy

Also Jerry really said “But enough about that” after making a claim like THAT 💀

There are too many pages left (ominous)

Legitimately wondering if Dickens wrote this just to dunk on the French

Also, this is a terrible plan, Charles!

Every time someone complains that this book isn’t “romantic” or “fun” I can hear Jane Austen shouting from her grave about the long lasting psychological effects of CHILD ABUSE

On a completely unrelated note, I want to throw a chair at Mrs. Norris

Yes, I have been reading every page of this

This plot has me audibly gasping like some Victorian lady

Also, I fear knitting has never looked so hardcore

Sydney Carton is the epitome of Sad Boy Hours

RIP Jane Austen you would have loved to hate on theater kids 😔

I actually recommend reading this before you bake anything because I was not prepared for the yields on some of these historic recipes
Makes: 18 dozen cookies

I would like to both thank the library for getting another one of these and also apologize to them because I will be keeping this for an entire year

Freaking scurvy, man

“You may be tempted to do _____. Do not do this.”

Everyone who is not Fanny in this book is just TERRIBLE no wonder girl is constantly exhausted and anxious 24/7

Not sure how I feel about Dickens’ prose but those first four chapters are a WILD start to a plot

This book doesn’t have a normal climax; it hits the gas at the halfway point and just goes at full speed until the ending

Elizabeth Gaskell definitely read this

Is this?? My favorite book???

Whoops

”Where there’s life, there’s hope” is having a double appearance in both this and Queen of Attolia right now

”May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks”

That’s from The Hobbit??? My Star Wars nerd self had NO memory of where that was originally from

Listening to the Andy Serkis narration is crazy because he does such an amazing variety of voices and narrator inflection that you forget who it is and then you get to Chapter 5 and it’s Gollum at 1000% in all his disgusting, pathetic glory.

(Reading this again to prep for LOTR trivia)

My last Tolkien read was The Silmarillion, and I think I just got whiplash reading the elves’ introduction in this

Slowly rereading this is a remarkable experience, namely because
1. I find it continually baffling that this was, upon its release in the year 2000, marketed to CHILDREN, and
2. Every other sentence in chapter 11 caused me to put down the book and go slightly insane

I wish I was even half as goal-oriented as this freaking T-Rex

She is on a MISSION and she will not let anything distract her

Do we have a contender for Worst Grandpa in Fiction???

I’m sorry but if somebody offered me an insane amount of money to leave the country without a passport mere minutes after a government agent told me they were being investigated for illegal activity I would IMMEDIATELY call the police