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That tiresome metaphor about a young woman being a blossoming flower.

These cops ask inappropriate questions.

Man is gone less than 24 hrs and cop suggests the wife calls a relative living abroad to come stay with her because she’s helpless.

I really hope the mysterious man isn’t this lady’s missing husband. It would be a fun twist if he is completely unrelated or maybe the antagonist.

Maybe it’s the contrarian in me, but my eyes roll when the mysterious man’s first memory is his mother’s embracing arms.

someone should’ve told me that there is a spontaneous combustion in this book.

Reminder: It took a World War for women to get the right to vote.

I disagree with dickens. I think it’s fine that Mrs. Jellyby has a passion outside motherhood.

I still don’t know what the stakes or tension in this book is. everybody seems fine to me.

“…by becoming this shorn lamb…”

chapter 29: Guppy tells the Lady of his discoveries and Esther’s original name.

chapter 28: introducing Mr. Rouncewell for a new plot between his son and Rosa.

I’m more interested in the author’s idea of a happy life: it’s girls in their twenties, visiting other countries or working.

Let’s fact-check this but I think Italy’s teenagers also go to high school.

lol. Is Uruguay considered “exotic”?

So we get a “moral of the story is….”

Religion makes a suddenly appearance for one paragraph.

It would have been interesting if the twist was his innocence.

In a 300 page book, we get one paragraph lamenting racism in the criminal justice system, and then we get one paragraph lamenting the cruelty of capital punishment.

I already heard this essay in middle school english class back in the 90s.

slight hiccup. I’m still trying to work this verb out. winks out? or do you mean blinks out? Like, an old TV will blink off. what about vanishes? or flash? — “Jenny winks out from her own reflection…”

sure are a lot of “seems”, “looks like”, “maybe”, “possibly”, “could be” in this chapter.

Aside: What would you call a contemporary lust? — “…inspire a bizarre, primitive lust.”

Aside: No, I wouldn’t take the parking brake until everyone is seated and buckled.

Wait, why would the condensation on the mirror affect the metaphorical weight on her shoulders? — “The mirror is cloudy—even through the condensation, the weight of this night sits heavy on her shoulders.”

ah, I read that wrong. meia culpa

I don’t understand the contrast being presented here. — “The mirror is cloudy—even through the condensation, the weight of this night sits heavy on her shoulders.”

Her spider-sense is tingling. - “Something is in pain. She tilts her head.”

random. — “…sixty-three years old now, and she does not believe in happiness…”

Be more specific. - “The system has failed them all.