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Donut: "I think I want to join Katia's team now."

Laundry day!
Rottweilers!
Gonorrhea!
Vra!
Cute hats!

This is amazing. Just when I was despairing of East Asian literature this comes along.

It's page after page of this abhorrent romantic nonsense

"Either I must die at present, or expire by the lingering torments of unsatisfied desire. Oh! since we last conversed together, a dreadful veil has been rent from before my eyes. "

"Hoi polloi" have seen anyone since Maugham use that in a novel.
(It's an adopted Greek meaning the common people)

oh thats a lot of pages

"This is Texas, not America"

I don't think it's possible to find a non industrial building in texas that doesn't have AC

" My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree."

" To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decen-cies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to? "

Oh the humanity!


Algernon.
(Picking up empty plate in horror.) Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I or-dered them specially.

Lane.
(Gravely.) There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. I went down twice.

Algernon.
No cucumbers!

Is there anything worse than making yourself finish a book that you'd have rather DNFd but now you're too close to the end and will be even more bothered if you don't see it through?

"no one likes melodrama Loita" 😱

"She could still turn back. The road would always lead her home. Literally, because the road was a cul-de-sac."

"Perry settled on the same radio station she always did, which wasn’t a station at all but a dead zone playing only static. Miss Winkle inwardly assured herself that this wasn’t a satanic tendency."

"privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex."

"I want to be Miss Our Lady of Suffering."

"Like toothpaste, once released, her curiosity could not easily be returned from whence it came. "

I let this skip to the top of the TBR because my library had it available. AND THIS IS FANTASTIC! I hope she can keep up the energy of the first 10 pages

April is oldest book month and this is the oldest book on my TBR.