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Only on page nine and already they're romanticizing the Normans as just about the most special and superior people ever to live 🤦

My gosh it's slow and repetitive

collections like this are always a mixed bag but I'm pretty unimpressed so far. lucky thirteen was SO cliche and predictable and unoriginal it was a little ridiculous.

This book sounded like it would be right up my alley, but the writing is just...not good. Going to try for a little longer and see if I can get into it but I suspect this will be a dnf

oh boy, I barely started and I'm already breaking down. I'm gonna have to read this one in short bits at a time.

This is an absolutely delightful book. It reminds me of homestcuk, and I mean that in the best possible way.

So far this is painfully boring. I don't know why I'm supposed to care about a rambling history of a random family over a few generations, when none of the characters are actually even given a personality. I care a little bit about the tree in the center of this arc, which is something, but I really don't care about this generic struggling colonial farmers on the prairie narrative.

This is hella fun so far, and not only because I've read KJ Charles' incredible Henchmen of Zenda. (Incidentally, the illustrated plan of the castle and chateau included in this book is precisely how I imagined it from her descriptions)

Well, the darn preface of this book (1966 edition) has made me cry

I can't seem to get into this, so I'm sending it back to the library for now. Not ready to mark it a DNF yet, especially so close to the beginning, but it didn't hook me. I want to read it for Nina, but I don't care about Nikolai or the main plot problem at all.

Well, so far I've read two of the stories and they're both a little disappointing. One had a ghost but was not very interesting in my opinion; and one didn't have a ghost, or any supernatural element whatsoever, which was very disappointing. It was actually a decent story all told, but quite a let down when you're expecting a ghost and you don't get one.

I'm enjoying this book immensely. Hilarious and deftly political.