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it calls to me twice a year like a green goblin mask

gnawing my arm off

RIP Cleavis Rhy, you would have loved eldest daughter memes

no that’s my girl

boy what is your plan

feel the monkey’s paw tightening around my request for “more Dickens references in histrom”

no one:
Roget: 👁️👄👁️

(this book rocks)

for every two incredible mary balogh books I read, there has to be one where a shitty parent is forgiven. (first half was good, I just want her to punch her dad)

I love how much Claudia thinks “Freyja Bedwyn, that bitch” because like, that’s MY bitch.

currently annoyed by: references to Crime and Punishment being translated into English in 1879 (it was 1885) and a pedantic character saying "Et tu, Brutus?" instead of *the actual line from the play* "et tu, Brute" which sounds better and preserves the vocative case

the prose is so bizarrely clunky I want to claw out my eyes

bad title, but I am being weirdly charmed by this book!

just what was the plan!!

Sorry, the only reason I think this wasn’t written by AI is the year it was published. It feels like you fed romance dialogue through a machine.

women DO belong in balloons

Or perhaps it is just George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.

sorry I cry every time!!! in this way, Dare will always have my number.

The HGH is underdeveloped in this early Dare, but we are still getting a IIBJ (independently invented blow job). Classic Dare!

Her heart had gone the way of her virginity: sneakily.

love that it starts with an insane party and a really gross accident. romance should be DISGUSTING.

I did not like this book!

I feel crazy. This book is not good. You're telling me an 18th century woman is grossed out by the concept of touching a raw egg? She worked as servant as a child and acts like cooking anything is so foreign to her. This is my current breaking point, but I'm going to try and finish because the conception of sex work is so bad and hollow that I want to scream about it and I want to scream accurately.

this is Balogh's To Have and To Hold

this is the longest book of all time

"And you don’t think ladies look at me and evaluate what I might bring them? They weigh the advantages for themselves. Does not everyone contemplate marriage in terms of benefit?” what benefits! he is not a Duke anymore!

also the reason the vicar's position is called a "living" is because it is effectively a life estate. a new Duke could not take it away from him!

unclear why I am reading this and also unclear why Perry doesn't try to get a job! why would an heiress want to marry an POOR illegitimate son of a Duke who is also kind of a dick. he is the perfect candidate for a job! get a job!

it is SO CUTE

okay I immediately love Bab.

everyone's always touting Georgette Heyer's historical accuracy as a virtue, but nobody's ever talking about how her prose makes me want to claw my eyes out