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“How difficulty increases desire”, 7.5/10.

They found the golem!

Wells caught slipping and dead. Moss has a TEC-9 now. Chigurh camping out in the Odessa house.

Halfway through in one day! Shootout at the Hotel. Moss is in Mexico.

And we're off! Ed Tom Bell reflects on the only boy he sent to the gaschamber at Huntsville.

We're done! Read the last quarter in about a day

Already cantell this will be a magical reading experience. Josef and Kornblut looking for the Golem

Meeting at Lambton. Elizabeth’s feelings shifting. Gratitude.

End of Vol II. Elizabeth’s startling cleareyed reflections on her family.

Elizabeth excoriates herself after reading Darcy’s letter.

Climactic argument and failed proposal from Darcy to Elizabeth. Brutal.

Elizabeth & Darcy meet alone

Sojourn at Mr Collins’s. Elizabeth impertinent to Lady Catherine. Darcy resurfaces.

Finished! Mostly on the way to and from ACP

Walmart.

The Gardiners come to Langbourne. Lots of funny judgmental passages.

End of Part II, maid service. Ehrenreich turns the maids against her by pushing Holly to go to the hospital. Heartbreaking, genuinely. Great passage about outcasts.

End of Part I. Things look hopeless lol.

The Collins refused proposal. Bingley departs. More theme-building about impressions.

Dolours Price’s off-the-books confession. She prays for the victims.

Good Friday. Touts. Belfast Project. Jean’s body discovered.

Introduction of Mr Wickham. Things getting complicated.

More drama. Jane sick. Sharp dialogue

Can’t believe how good this is. The prose practically floats, but Austen is ruthlessly perceptive…

Started reading on the flight from Singapore.

The Old Bailey bombing. Brendan Hughes's daring lorry escape. Man, I would not survive in 1970s Belfast.

"How our mind tangles itself up", 6/10. A loosie on how if two choices were equally appealing, the only logical thing would be to do nothing.

"On judging someone else's death", 8/10. As it turns out, Montaigne is not easily impressed by death. It can often be yet another venue for arrogance. The Roman emperor who designed gold-coated ropes and jewel-studded poison capsules so he could commit suicide glamorously. People hiring servants to kill them.

Skipped completely over Raymond Sebond. Didn't actually read any of it LOL

Really started this like two weeks ago. The Irish narrator is a stroke of genius. So is the story structure--ever-widening circles of citywide guerilla warfare, paramilitary terrorism, and cutthroat brinksmanship. Dolours Price, Brandon Hughes, Gerry Adams, Frank Kitson, and of course poor Jean McConville at the center of it all.