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Why does every female character need some kind of magical realist special ability to distinguish her? Are Mrs Hussey and her daughter not capable of being interesting enough on their own to sustain a narrative?

Rough start, folks.

i made a pact with myself to only read this book once every 5 years but fuck it, i somehow managed to convince like 50 fans of the terror (2018) to do a book club with me so here we go only 3 years later. will be at a snail’s pace bc of my punishing academic life but it should provide some comfort and relief for many months to come!

prince hal canonically refers to himself as “a good boy” (II.iv.12)

over a year into managing a discord server for fans of the histories and i am just now starting the henry ivs. are you all happy now

“I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order […] Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismographic needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.”

i’m not sure i’ve ever bought a book solely bc i find the author hot before, so we’ll see if i come to regret this decision

only part of this book i’ve found particularly clever so far was when a subtle explanation for the “second-best bed” thing was given ;)

i’ve been calling myself an anarcho-communist for years without reading any significant amount of theory let’s goooooo

after almost two full years since i first began ulysses, i just now got to the circe episode, & tbh? i think if jimmy joyce had moved this to earlier in the book, fewer weak-minded-hearted people like me would give up on it. also, i think every novel should have a section that is written like a play!!

i’m back to the grind—i had to take an extended break for college things/recovering from college things

has anyone tallied up exactly how many of the titular metamorphoses involve either the attempted or completed r*pe of a female character

i think this book hits its stride in the richard iii section, but i was still a little disappointed by how repetitive and shallow the treatment of the henry vi plays was. like, i know nobody reads or performs or cares about them, but i think you can glean more from them than just "party politics bad"

at this rate i might finish by february? which would be nice! my only real goal is to finish by next bloomsday...

i literally only read like 4 pages of this a day but it’s a highlight of each day

reading this along with gifford's annotations is taking forever but it's so worth the ride