The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

by India Holton

Mrs. Quirm and Miss Pickering strolled

How can I NOT see this as Mrs. Quim?!?

Over the past two years, in between teaching classes as an Oxford University professor,

lol this is def a fantasy if this is taking place in the Victorian era but she’s an Oxford professor

she might reach New Zealand, land of the giant carnivorous moa.

Omg is that where they’re from no thank you

“Don’t try that charm on me, if you please. I will not succumb like some—some—liberal arts undergraduate.”

Oooh burn!

while he may be an Englishman and a professor at Cambridge, he was educated at Yale. Yale! The place isn’t even two hundred years old! It barely qualifies as a community learning center.”

Nice

“Are you all right?” “Fine,” she said in Automatic British.

See this is great but it’s every other sentence with these jokes

Yale offers an education so practical, it may as well be a technical institute!”

Never not here for Yale lols

The clerk and engineer stared at her as if she were mad, or possibly German.

I see what you did there

intimate contact with a male body had gone from titillating to tedious in the extreme.

Indeed

oh, that poor little bird!”

I genuinely appreciate this woman’s priorities though!

Iniquity was an excellent defense against vulnerability,

Tiny truth bombs along the way

“Do you think us complete idiots?” Devon called out. “Well, you did get your doctorate from Yale,” Beth said, “so you can hardly blame them.”

The Yale hate continues to be DELIGHTFUL

no Englishwoman worth her salt took care of herself if there was an opportunity to sigh instead and gaze wearily into teacups.

Nice

he’d also spent many of his formative years in America, where changing the subject just when things were finally getting interesting would have led to most of the country’s history not happening.

Not inaccurate

“Damn it, you Arschgeige!”

I sincerely hope this is a real German insult