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crazy reveal that Robert Jordan is just a professor on sabbatical. Indiana Jones-ass professor.

this is excellent

Tom JONES

Tom Jones

[re: New Orleans cockroaches]

“But none care to recognize his good qualities, because of the mischievous and disgusting propensities, and all creatures wage unrelenting war against him, and nevertheless he continueth to propagate his species and to drown himself in cream.”

kind of a big reveal that the Raven King was just Paul Atreides all along

Lily Bart? More like LISA [&] Bart. [Simpson.]

Lily Bart Mall Cop

LILY BART you are making me ANXIOUS

I’ve actually been reading this since May, via the Dracula Daily substack. Real fun! It emails you the letters/diary entries as they appear in real time. Putting this on Goodreads cause now the book is ratcheting up.

coming at this as an American is fun. Okay, so Jean Valjean is an ex-convict. But he’s rich? So what’s the problem??

FINALLY, the sewers!!

they left the part where Enjolras summarily executes a guy out of the musical

Baller Move: stopping your narrative in its tracks to complain about how one of your novels was received thirty years ago.

tbh kinda forgot this whole book is about a murder trial

goodness gracious

taking Fed Courts come fall so it’s like a “if not now, when?” moment with reading these. But reading this in public is a bit embarrassing tbh. I’m a dweeb but not the specific brand of dweeb you’re assuming, I promise.

I dunno how many of you read the article circulating today about ICE recruitment but I cannot stress enough how much book Thernardier is the aspiring ICE agent who resents his HS classmates' Insta vacations and so wants to use his ICE money to buy AirBnBs and get on the passive income train.

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Finished ‘Marius’. Man, when this thing decides to move it ~moves.

“modesty, that epidermis of the soul” …okay

love when Hugo introduces a new guy who is clearly Jean Valjean and Hugo pretends he isn’t for 60 pages