![]() ![]() A bunch of my friends read this book and said it was great. Okay, fine, it’s about “The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life.” Everybody has a hobby, and mine just happens to be. Dido Twite is one of the most appealing characters I’ve ever met in a book.Īhem, I am super about to start Come As You Are, by Emily Nagoski, which is, look, just pick it up yourself. If all children’s and YA authors took such pains with dialogue and had such respect for the reader, we wouldn’t be in such a pickle today. This is the third book in the series that begins with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, but you can enjoy the books independently. I have a few hundred pages to go, and I honestly have no idea what is going to happen. There are also love triangles and pleasantly despicable side characters, dissolute rats ripe for comeuppance, and almost-heroes you want to shake and make them get their act together. ![]() Eventually, his wealth becomes so impressive that he decides to run for public office. He’s a blustering financial giant with glitzy, vulgar tastes and a murky past, who bulldozes his way to the top of society because he acts so rich that everyone assumes he really is rich-and so they’re willing to lend him even more money. I was enjoying the book for its own sake but about halfway through, I realized that Augustus Melmotte sounded awfully familiar. It’s a chatty and gargantuan Victorian novel of courtship, corruption, dissolution, greed, lovers, and sissy boys. I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING BAD IS COMING AND IT’S PREEMPTIVELY BREAKING MY HEART. ![]() I’ve only just started it, and the little boy has only just gotten the pony. I hate that this level of writing is sinking into their brains. A dumb book is fine, but they read these books over and over and over again. I wish I hadn’t let my kids read these books, because they are dumb. There wasn’t but my land, such tedious writing, and the inconsistencies in how magic works is just maddening. I read it through several years ago to make sure there was nothing dangerous for the kids, as reported. I picked this up because it was a book, and my lord, it is dull. “Very smart, “Tony said, looking at it with her head on one side. “I bought it, some time ago,” answered the old lady. “A moment, Mamma!” He forgot what he owed to me and to our name? He never knew it, from the very beginning! A man that quietly sit down with his wife’s dowry–a man without ambition or energy or will-power! A man that was some kind of thick soup made out of hops in his veins instead of blood–I verily believe he has! And to let himself down to such common doing as this with Babette–and when I reproached him with his good-for-nothingness, to answer with a word that–a-word–”Īnd, arrived once more at the word, the word she would not repeat, quite suddenly she took a step forward and said, in a completely altered, a quieter, milder, interested tone: “How perfectly sweet! Where did you get that, Mamma?” She mentioned with her chin toward a little receptacle, an charming basket-work stand woven out of reeds and decorated with ribbon bow, in which the Frau Consul kept her fancy-work. She made two steps backward and feverishly dried her eyes. ![]() Here is Tony, who has arrived in hysterics at her parents’ house, after fleeing from her second husband, Herr Permaneder: The characters are so real, but the times are so different. Completely fascinating account of a fictional bourgeois family as it slowly declines over the courts of four generations, published in Germany in 1901. This is a pure comfort read, because I’ve read this book probably a dozen times. I’m currently insulating the space between my bed and wall with countless books I’m in the middle of. This is going to be the biggest category. Check out her immediate book meme, which, rather than getting you to cast your mind back over influential books in your past, asks questions about “the books you’re actually reading now, or just read, or are about to read.” Excellent idea! Here’s mine: Darwin Catholic is still pulling her weight. Remember back in the old days, when bloggers used to help each other out? Mrs. ![]()
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