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August 1 - August 3, 2025
He is much praised at Cambridge for deigning to provide co-author credit to his students in his many publications,
Idk sounds like he's giving his students experience and credit…I don't see her issue
Irish fae—their kind rarely goes without a murderous uncle or power-mad regent for long.
Its not just the fae
“What? I said nothing to offend her.”
I dont know if it's just that I'm as socially inept as her, but I agree
In the early days of our friendship,
What friendship??? She's been shit talking him the whole book so far
“Of course. It’s customary in Ireland for the guests to prepare at least one meal for their hosts.
Is it??
He’d reacted with a horror befitting a confession of murder
No because I also react like this when I find out someone doesn’t eat breakfast
How you’ve convinced almost an entire village to hate you in the space of a week is beyond me.
Am I crazy or did she literally not do anything to make them hate her??
“I’m quite happy to say that, in Dublin, we have servants to deal with these things.”
IN DUBLIN WE HAVE SERVANTS HAH
“I will not bleed any less indoors, you utter madwoman.”
I love him, he has charmed me
Aud, standing by the counter with her frowning husband, exclaimed, “My God, Emily! Who did this to you?”
Oh he definitely planned this
“Just don’t ask me to pay my respects again, please. I can’t abide children, mortal or Folk.”
Real
“Oh, God,” he moaned. “She wants to discuss theory at a moment like this. I am doomed, aren’t I?”
I find him quite amusing
Do they have other weather in Ireland?”
Really not appreciating all this Irish slander coming from an English woman
This was Bambleby, after all—my only friend.
If this is how she treats her only friend, I'd hate to be her enemy
Should I (oh, God) attempt to hug him?
Me
You screamed, which I appreciated, and Shadow went berserk, also kind but not much more helpful,
He's quickly making it into my top ten funniest book characters. I am chuckling
I had supposed he felt something for me and had only hoped he would keep it to himself. Forever.
Real
“I have stopped listening,” he would say to a long-winded colleague, and then go back to his book.
Who is this icon? Hoping I get to meet Leopold in the next book
the result was a short stay in Edinburgh Prison for de Grey, her second but, sadly, not her last brush with incarceration.
Okay icon
He won’t sorrow, then, for it will free him up to marry someone prettier than you.”
HAH
(How does one respond to tears?)
Oh Emily, I fear we are too much alike
