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gotta say i am nervous for will’s plan to be best friends with his long-lost dad, based on how lyra reconnecting with her dad went

rip murderbot you would’ve loved twitter sex scene discourse

LYRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HI

for all that the middle is boring the last ~7 chapters of this book really are so tremendously well done. also they should not have let me read this as a mentally unstable teenager

the first 2/3s of this book doesn’t deserve five stars but the last third makes me want to cry and scream and throw up and batter my head against the wall. which could mean nothing about my psyche

sydney carton strong contender for cuntiest bisexual of all time

if you didn’t want that teenager to come to bodily harm then why did you take him with you toward danger

ten points for a plot twist that actually bangs. it would bang harder if i hadn’t immediately guessed it due to heavy-handed foreshadowing thirty pages ago, but it does bang

i swear i could shave 10% off this book just by taking out the redundant filler prose

i am so much more invested in the gayass toxicity happening between [octavian] and [agrippa] than i am in calla and anton

oh my god calla doesn’t jump because royals weren’t supposed to i KNOW

the prose in this book isn’t offensively bad but it’s like nothingburger

agrippa character implied gay…

best part of this book is bleach blonde octavius caesar

remember how i said i was gonna speedrun this and then i didn’t. im serious this time

“Then she closes the door without saying good-bye. She probably doesn’t even realize that’s impolite.” ZACKELL AUTISM WARRIORRRRR

“Cleopatra is said to have brought down the curtain on an age, although of course from the Egyptian perspective Antony too could be said to have done so. It is easy to forget he was Cleopatra’s undoing every bit as much as she was his.”

the fear in my heart for benji ovich.

“It would be difficult to say whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner, or the man to whom she was the pretext. Antony could not win a war without her. Octavian could not wage one.” frothing at the mouth

“In a military cloak he personally launched a spear drenched in pig blood toward the East, from a ritual patch of ‘hostile soil’ in Rome. (There is speculation that he invented this ancient rite for the occasion, that Octavian was making up the history as he went along. He was very good at restoring traditions, including those that had never existed.)”

i love learning abt him. worst guy ever invented

the weird part is dickens clearly does sympathize w the plight of the common people in france & yet he still presents the revolution as a bloodthirsty tyrannical mob killing anyone with a soft angelic spirit. it's not exactly bootlicking but it's verging. victor hugo would have words i fear

les mis reference in this book because they hate me specifically

less than 20 pages in and i am not getting along with the gender politics of this lighthearted book for teenagers

when my review for this drops and you all realize i am actually no fun for real <3

GERSHWIN’S RHAPSODY IN BLUE MENTIONED! 🏁

“It was obviously a terrible year for everyone, but as usual no one seems to appreciate who the real victim was: a middle-aged man with large financial interests.”

every time i open this book i'm like oh thank god i don't have to have everything figured out by the time i'm thirty. and then i'm like fuuuuuck i'm still gonna have the psyche of a show chihuahua in my fifties. but it's still comforting overall

this book is so frustrating because there are so many fascinating character moments (even darnay and dr. manette get moments where they’re actually interesting, re: the guilt of generational wealth + trauma respectively), but then it’s like what if we were boring about a bank for a while

“You were a bachelor in your cradle.”
“Well,” observed Mr. Lorry, beamingly adjusting his little wig, “that seems probable, too.”

gobber httyd voice that’s why i never got married. and one other reason!

madame defarge they could never make me hate you