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Reading this properly this time and the first essay was hilarious. :)

ending felt a bit easy, but excellently plotted overall

thwart the coracle!!! 🦜 hurray for ereader dictionaries

enjoying this a lot, more for the writing than investment in the characters, but not getting as much time to read it as I'd like, just a short while before bed, so progress has been slower than expected.

still reading this in brief moments here and there. still good!

treachery! 🦜🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️😄
very consistent chapter length

losing hope that this is gonna give me what i wanted from it...

absolutely gorgeous writing, this was an excellent pick.

this is awesome

waffled over which rls book to pick for a while, but i guess if it's good enough for henry james it's good enough for me. will this be the start of 19th c summer? we'll see

very readable, but thus far it has not been giving me the thing i picked it up for. not up to the relevant eras though, so i'll give it more time.

Considering trying to only read fiction from people born before 1900 for a month or so. Possible I'd only read one and bail on it, but I crave writing from people who weren't afraid to load up a sentence with clauses and qualifiers. Hmmm

awesome, as always 🌈👍💯 :)

Should have started earlier, not going to be able to finish before bed. :(

ngl, the opening was a little awkward, bit of exposition as dialogue, but this is so much fun. :)

Pausing for Bergeron #21!!!

not sure if this is gonna stick yet

Getting very strong David Suchet's Poirot voice from Nico in that last chapter. Not disliking this, by any means, but the flamboyance with which it is wearing its influences is distracting me from the story.

i was expecting the nephew to be the love interest, but no.

started this mostly because i've got 2 weeks of ku trial left, and this was the most expensive ku eligible book on my wish list.

chapter break. maybe book break? idk

It's impossible to laugh at the FBI's bumbling incompetent attempts to track Baldwin and his friends without surfacing an accompanying horror at the ease with which anyone can be tracked today.

anachronism?

Oh, Lewis. I don't think he's gonna work out like you hope.

Another rather abrupt feeling step.