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Not sure I can get past a man in 1852 being called Bobby

I am enjoying this but it’s repetitive on a paragraph-to-paragraph level even by Mary Balogh standards

The constant “puck bunny” references are grating

Wild to throw in footnotes and asides like “oh also tsar was on cocaine this whole time”

Not sure why I slept on this so long. It’s incredible.

I keep listening and the percent keeps not going up

Not a mysteries person, but love Jennifer Ashley’s Victorian romances, so here I am

Treading much of the same ground as Index, A History of the

idk the abbess and norman invader having carefully planned and negotiated CNC rather than actual dub/noncon feels like it’s kinda missing the point of abbess/norman invader

Switching between two different first person narrators without saying who’s narrating each chapter is……. A choice

Dead wife love triangle annoying me

The serial numbers are not filed off; they are in red, underlined.

Reminds me of Harriette Wilson’s memoirs, but not necessarily in a good way. There, I could let the onslaught of names wash over me; here, I’m constantly trying (and failing) to remember who is who.

I kind of hate this. If it weren’t for book club….

This book has a very specific target audience, of which I am not a part: Dog People

Kinda forgot I was in the middle of this, tbh. Wasn’t holding my attention.

Library hold line and doesn’t make sense to keep it checked out on the off-chance I keep going.

The Peter Pan stuff is weird

I was on track for my stretch reading goal and then I decided to listen to a 29 hour behemoth

I simply don’t understand what’s stopping them from being together in truth.

Wasn’t expecting this spontaneous threesome, but perhaps that’s on me

Good so far but this is a LOT of names

DFW’s footnotes style not working on Kindle. Waiting for physical copy from the library.

Really liked the first two essays! (Youth tennis + sports memoirs)

Described a bag as “capacious” and I literally laughed out loud

Hmm the hero’s hatred of the cousin (which is pretty obviously gonna be false accusations) is annoying me

Ok let’s get our hero involved pls it’s been an hour

This is fantastic so far. Don’t want to put it down.