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McKenna is gonna show Aline that her crispy legs can't deter him from ravishing her. Good a place as any to leave it I guess 😂

Aline has sent homeboy away again even though he begged her to marry him by their love tree or whatever it is by the river, so now she's just being sad at the manor thinking about how ugly her legs are. Oh and the drunk American is moving to London to get sober but then he wants the little sister to marry him in six months.

Welp. That was fast. Lil sis went straight to the American drunkard's house and made his valet let her in at 2 a.m. so they could do the devil's tango

The older brother is justifiably not fond of the idea of the two rakes humping at his sisters, so he's made a bit of trouble for their business endeavors, which means they'll have to leave the estate and go to London to sort it out. So the youngest sister has decided to "race off to London to pursue that damn libertine!" And the older sister stops him from being a cock block

The little sister is making out with the American drunkard in the portrait gallery. No wonder everyone thinks that these sisters are hussies 😂

Oh I forgot to mention that there was an accident in the kitchen right after McKenna left the estate and it burned the shiznit out of Aline's legs so now she's all "my bottom half is hideous and therefore I can never marry and have children" even though there is nothing to indicate that the hardware is dysfunctional

The secondary alcoholic rich American character has glimpsed the reclusive ruined younger sister of the FMC during a ball that she declined to attend and now they're waltzing on a terrace or something. Is this the next book? I can't stand the narrator's voice for this dude

STOP ALINE HAS A GAY BESTIE

TWELVE YEARS LATER, McKenna has come back for ✨revenge✨ against Aline for breaking his heart. The way he plans to do this is ...by seducing her? 🫣😆 He repays the housekeeper for his passage to America in Bitcoin, I mean, stock certificates, and is a certified scoundrel.

Horny teenagers Aline and John McKenna are about to be torn apart by class after rolling in the hay but NOT taking Aline's ✨ virginity ✨ (which her father threatened to have checked by a physician after they got caught smoochin' in the stables).

This book is ripping my heart out.

"There's a bookcase lining an entire wall. By the window there's an armchair and another lamp, with a stack of books illuminated underneath it. Even more books on the coffee table. I'm intensely relieved by this. What would I have done if he turned out to be a beautiful illiterate?"

Gonna be another emotionally devastating ride on the Roxane Gay train 😭

"A 2010 study from the Army Research Institute concluded that 'the main reason talented people leave is not the lure of a lucrative civilian career, but because mediocre people stay in and get promoted.'"

What the Army was teaching its captains and majors... was "all method--you know, here's how you do a movement to contact. They had not been taught why you organize for a movement to contact the way the method prescribes. Why the prescribed distribution of forces and assignments? What's the theory behind what it is you're trying to do?" (Col. Huba Wass de Czege)

"The fixation on winning day-long battles in a two-week NTC rotation may we'll have distracted an entire generation of combat officers from learning, or even thinking about, how to turn short-term tactical victories into long-term strategic results." (Military historian Brian Linn)

"From 1982 on, the National Training Center was the intellectual home of the Army, not the War College or West Point" (Col. Paul Yingling)

What can I say? This book is perfect. I bought this set because it looks good on the shelf but the Lattimore translation is still my favorite (sorry Fagles).

I can't decide who I like less: Heathcliff, Catherine, or myself... for deciding to finally read this book.