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this is decidedly ‘meh’ for the moment

hermann hesse has still not stopped being emo

For some reason, I find great reassurance in the fact that all throughout time and everywhere in the world, humans have always been one and the same and shared the same anxieties and worries about interpersonal relationships.

darcy’s first name is fitzwilliam i’m sorry what—

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

hermann hesse is so emo

oh no this is so pedantic
(reading this because my mom told me it was really good—she said it will stop being pedantic and become un-put-downable)
but: oh no this is so pedantic—

As I’m nearing the end of this I’m starting to wonder how the hell I’m going to review this. This is the most [insert adjective] book I’ve ever read, and I don’t know which adjective to insert. At the moment I am at a loss for words to describe the impact that even the glimpse that this book has provided into the horrors of this campaign has had on me.

woooo cannibalism

less than a hundred pages to go, we're about to begin the berezina manoeuvre 😢

“A bivouac set up in deep snow in the ruins and the courtyard of a burnt-out house, a few meagre victuals, for the possession of which we had to come to blows at the entrance to the stores with thousands of ghosts enraged by hunger, and one single day of rest, with a temperature of [– 22.5°C (– 8.5°F)]: that was all we found in Smolensk”

The introduction, which I didn’t read, was 60 pages long

the French had with them some three thousand Russian prisoners. Even though their presence cost nothing in terms of supplies –the unfortunate wretches were given no food at all, so they fed off the dead horses they found by the wayside and ended up, by some accounts, eating their own dead– they were an aggravating encumbrance to the Portuguese infantry detailed to escort them, and took up valuable space

okay let's get this bad boy over withhh

SJM really can’t decide if she wants Tamlin to be good or bad, can she

oh my god everyone’s behaving like petulant insufferable children

some of what's happening is really putting my willing suspension of disbelief on trial but it's entertaining and i'm escaping reality and i actually like the characters so

So far this is decidedly mid — but nevertheless readable