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Mamma mia, here we go again!

I'm hoping that this time around I'll be mature enough to pick up on the subtle (and not-so-subtle) critique of Southern culture which wiser people than I have told me are all over this novel. (Which is so very readable, btw.) They sailed over my head last time, you see.

Me likes Athelas

It’s like one of those weird dreams where you know key details with certainty and it seems perfectly logical until you look back and are like, “where…. was my evidence for thinking that?”

I promise I’m still reading this. I’m just waiting for a snow day or something to give me the motivation to take it down from the shelf again.

WHAT IS THIS BOOK

Of course she fainted. And of course he caught her.

(I am having a grand old time.)

So let me get this straight. The bad guy’s goal is to get his son to kill somebody. By making him fall in love. By kidnapping a girl and having him guard her.

I have no words, folks.

His name is LARAMIE X’D

“But I have to go to Cincinnati!” I shouted.

^^^I relate to this little girl

Poor old Mitya, he’s having a rough go of it

(I’m reading these in the Sheen anthology The Cries of Jesus from the Cross, compiles by Al Smith.)

“Homer and Virgil alike he has outlived” (line 2616)

I feel like that’s a flex on the part of our dear old Anonymous Bard:

“Dudes this belongs on a shelf ABOVE Homer!!”

Dorothy Sayers: “don’t push it, buddy”

My flight: *kindly gives me time to read 100 pages*
The plot: *kindly picks up the pace*
The author: *heavily implies that our hero has met an untimely end*
Me: *is dying to read the next chapter*
My flight: *rudely ends*

this book is just so much fun

The above update was meant for Scaramouche. XD

OW

Owwww I was not expecting this book to HURT me today. Yowch!

ALMOST THERE *pant* *pant* *pant*

(Also Ramballe came back and I did not see that coming)

(Also Karataev is the BEST)

(Also I ship the ship that I was supposed to ship much more than I expected to ship it)

"'...he's too good, he can't, he can't live, because...'"

Welcome to the world of Leo Tolstoy, guys, where attaining spiritual enlightenment is a death sentence.

It's about forgiveness. Tolstoy wants you to understand no one's really responsible for suffering, it just happens, so you can't lash out in response to it like the French Gov't does to the supposed arsonists, you have to accept it as inevitable like Princess Marya, and if you do that...well you'll still suffer but at least you won't add suffering to the world. You gotta love, dudes. Even when it hurts.

"'You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.'"

To give context on that quote would be to give spoilers so I shall refrain.

Meanwhile, Captain Ramballe is highly endearing. I doubt he'll ever come in again but I loved him while he was around. (With a divine love as well as a human one, let us hope.)

Leave it to Pierre Bezukhov to wander into the hottest part of the Borodino battlefield on one of the bloodiest days in human history and not even know he's in a significant spot :P

Meanwhile, Andrei.

Andrei knows all too well.

I will catch up someday. I will.

Oh Pierre, honey. Honey. You're so sweet but your brains are so soft.

......guys I think this is my favorite Lord Peter book.