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i’m actually dying because of how good this is

normally, very short chapters irk me, so i really don’t understand why i’m obsessed with the really short chapters in this book but i AM

“I always w-wanted to choke you,” he says dreamily

this friendship gets me

the character growth is so nice but also i wish even one single young man i know in real life who reminds me of jack would take it into his head to prove himself capable of the same

Glew feels remarkably like a character C. S. Lewis would write

You know, reading this really just confirms my opinion that C. S. Lewis wasn’t arguing with any real pacifists in “Why I Am Not a Pacifist.” I was always like, “…No Mennonites that I know are THIS kind of pacifist” (I know a lot of Mennonites), and Bonhoeffer’s argument here, much closer in time to what Lewis might be replying to, also isn’t really addressed.

Shufen be like “what if they’re not scared of me though” when there is literally no one more terrifying in the entire West

I knew she was gonna do that!!!!!!!! I knew it I knew it. Women are “gentler” and “more compassionate” my FOOT

Reading John’s “should I ally with a demon” conversations with the different Rahels it’s just like wow, it really matters who you marry. Because it’s the same John.

The first Suicide Club story is so memorable. The others…I had read them before too, but I wasn’t sure at first I had, because I remembered absolutely nothing

Every now and then I just have no idea what he's saying, but mostly this is so good and timely for me

A young Tory fresh off the boat is met by a Virginia Patriot and they decide within fifteen minutes of knowing each other that they’re best bros forever??? THIS is the quality fiction I am asking for!!!

I really like Monsieur Joubert. (It probably helps that he’s the only decent man in this entire, very French, book.)

I CANNOT get over how much I love Eilonwy

this better be worth it

It’s uncanny how much these evil secret society guys sound like 2026 red pill bros, and I’m super curious if it’s intentional

honestly only a pantomime villain WOULD be that incompetent

“Nobody knew just how hard it was for George not to worry over the people he loved, for he refused to make his anxiety a chain to bind them.” that right there is a
portrait of my dad. wow.

enjoying this a lot but had to sit there for a second to blink at the page and ask myself if the young man had really just lamented, in an embittered and persecuted way, that his father had ONLY paid for him to go to Europe for three months (he really had).

i was thinking sure, there’s some melodrama, but this really isn’t terribly melodramatic as victorian novels go, and then mr franklin blake (whose middle name must BE “melodrama”) started narrating. (it’s great, i’m loving it all)

“As a general rule, political talk appears to me to be of all talk the most dreary and the most profitless” good to know I have a kindred spirit in fictional 1848

The author’s genius lies not in writing a character like Miss Clack (plenty of people have done that), but in making her the narrator. Ack. I am eating it up with a SPOON

big fan of the mostly reliable narrator with a blind spot trope

but what if the pigs get sunburnt (i am sorry but…literally my first thought)

i SWEAR, if Sally goes and falls in love with the EUGENICIST———

oh, one knows exactly why the protagonist of Poe’s story cut out the black cat’s eye? one almost feels one would have done the same? SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, MR. ORWELL

“modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.” it’s so accurate

I disagree more with his take on Kipling than on Dickens, but still insightful—and smiled at the characterization of Kipling as “only half civilized”

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”