*is reduced to speechless exasperation* #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
"You can totally stop being queen!" is odd advice to give a Tudor monarch. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Oh. Oh, Lady Jane. *shakes head* #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
We take a break from excessive ellipses, only to substitute excessive em dashes. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Now the author is waxing faux-philosophical. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
I SHOULD HOPE SO, replies the reader. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction #ReallyNow
The novelist is versifying again, inadvisably. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Would somebody please tell Lady Jane Grey to stop fainting at inconvenient moments? #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Sigh. Volume 3. (I did look ahead to the ending, which is Unhappy.) #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
I do wish someone would have told this novelist that they lacked the comic gift. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
When bad interpolated verse attacks. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Let's pause for this somewhat gratuitous allusion to Odysseus' homecoming. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Enough with the clothes, please. #ThreeByFiveCards #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
OMINOUS SYMBOLIC LIGHTNING. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Author ought to abridge the alliteration. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Still progressing on the novel. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
I fear all may not be quite right with this author's use of Scots. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
I apparently spoke too soon about the ellipses. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Don't explain the meaning of your character's symbolic name! #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
To my knowledge, this is the 1st time I've encountered Cuthbert Tunstall in #VictorianCatholicFiction. http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/tunstall.htm
This author does like to describe food. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Hands don't gnaw, as a general rule. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction #MixedMetaphors
Once more unto the novel. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
We have now made it to a paragraph with six sets of ellipses. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
Help, knock-off Walter Scott is again invading this novel. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
First and only use of "longinquity" in a Victorian religious novel, I expect. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
"Cuddle Cranmer Clutchem" marks a new low, I think, in the annals of symbolic names. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
What is *with* these ellipses?! The comma is your friend, Victorian novelist! #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
I think this novelist has Meg Merrilees on their mind. #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction
But wait! A paragraph with five sets of ellipses! #VictorianReligiousFiction #VictorianCatholicFiction