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All of these people are horrible people lol, although I can't say I particularly blame Heathcliff for acting badly because everyone is so racist towards him

I still have so many questions. Why the hell does Mr. Earnshaw take Heathcliff home in the first place? Why is Lockwood renting at Thrushcross Grange? Why does Heathcliff hate his daughter-in-law so much? Why is everyone so racist? How did the Earnshaws and the Lintons end up in the Moors, or are they from there originally?

My main questions about why the narrator is even renting this property on the Moors in the first place still haven't been answered. I'm guessing that this narrator basically just serves as a plot device to reveal the backstory of the family that owns the estate, but maybe I'm wrong.

I can already tell that I'm going to adore this book. Emily Bronte's command over language is very impressive, and it seems to me that the gothic setting is a direct reflection of her depressing and hopeless Victorian upbringing in the Yorkshire Moors. How fun!

I am actually really enjoying this so far, but I'm going to put this on pause, because I am going to read Wuthering Heights instead. I was trying to choose between the two when I started my annual dive into classic fiction, and although Tolstoy is very accessible, this book is very long, and might be better for the fall/winter time (in Tsarist Russia, snow no fall on you, you fall on snow)

The novel to end all novels! Or maybe that's War and Peace. They're both Tolstoy though, so that's saying something

I think I am actually going to save this book for later. It's not that I don't like it, but I want to start some fiction that I've been meaning to pick up rather than a memoir.

Starting up this one too, who knows how long it will take to read but this is where we start getting into the good stuff

I can't tell if it's freaky or cliche that this author did the nasty in a cemetery like Mary Shelley. It's a hell of a way to find out that men are trash

Not even that far into the book and I'm already seeing some of the Argentine ingenuity that I think is charming and fascinating. The author says she's too poor to afford to be buried en el cementerio de Recoleta, but that's no problem, because she challenges her friends to throw her ashes behind the doors of a tomb that she likes. That's a free burial, right there

It's been over a decade since I've read a full-length book in Spanish. Mariana Enriquez is an award winning Argentinian author, and I have been missing Latin America lately, so I thought I would give her work a try. When I studied abroad, I lived very close to the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires, which is essentially a maze of mausoleums. I'll be interested to hear an Argentinian's mediations about it.

This is pretty fascinating! The dietary advice that this book provides isn't, like, super groundbreaking--Obviously eating less processed foods is beneficial for your weight. But, it's helpful to know WHY this is the case, and it's similarly helpful to know that focusing on calories is less important than focusing on food quality when it comes to producing GLP-1.

I'm going to be totally honest, this book seems a little gimmicky, but I'm overweight so I'm willing to give it a shot