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#booksjoyread #fiction starting "The corner that held them" by sylvia townsend warner. I made it past the intro! Hooray for older books

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War and peace excerpt: So she decided that it was necessary to prepare the opinion of society. She provoked the jealousy of the elderly magnate and told him what she had told her other suitor; that is, she put the matter so that the only way for him to obtain a right over her was to marry her. The elderly magnate was at first as much taken aback by this suggestion of marriage with a woman whose husband was alive, as the younger man had been, but Hélène’s imperturbable conviction that it was as simple and natural as marrying a maiden had its effect on him too. Had Hélène herself shown the least sign of hesitation, shame, or secrecy, her cause would certainly have been lost; but not only did she show no signs of secrecy or shame, on the contrary, with good-natured naïveté she told her intimate friends (and these were all Petersburg) that both the prince and the magnate had proposed to her and that she loved both and was afraid of grieving either.

#booksjoyread #warandpeace #booksky i know this this helene being written as a hate sink again but i admire the pure nerve. The lack of shame

#booksjoyread #booksky #rowanblood been finally reading Vessel of Woven Night and enjoying it despite the slowness of these first 100 pages. Interesting to see the same conflicts between Saffron and Cyvlan are still brewing

Excerpt from war and peace: He imagined that the war with Russia came about by his will, and the horrors that occurred did not stagger his soul. He boldly took the whole responsibility for what happened, and his darkened mind found justification in the belief that among the hundreds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians.

#booksjoyread #booksky #warandpeace sometimes this book feels really relevant to modern politics

Virgin crown exerpt: Joska scoffed with a great amount of effort put into not sounding petulant. “Well, you are old.”

#booksjoyread #booksky #thevirgincrown ah im glad to see the dynamic develop in this way. I was worried itd be boring

Excerpt from the virgin crown: “Well, that’s good,” Edham concluded. “You’re so little. The ones in the Empire would trample you to death.” “What?” Joska asked. “What?”

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Quote from war and peace: Princess Mary was sitting helpless and bewildered in the large sitting room, when Rostóv was shown in. She could not grasp who he was and why he had come, or what was happening to her. When she saw his Russian face, and by his walk and the first words he uttered recognized him as a man of her own class, she glanced at him with her deep radiant look and began speaking in a voice that faltered and trembled with emotion. This meeting immediately struck Rostóv as a romantic event. “A helpless girl overwhelmed with grief, left to the mercy of coarse, rioting peasants! And what a strange fate sent me here! What gentleness and nobility there are in her features and expression!” thought he as he looked at her and listened to her timid story.

#booksky #booksjoyread #dailywarandpeace rostov you have weird ideas about romance. Also see alt text for parts the volune bar obscured

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Reading for the year (I should keep this as a thread:) #reading #booksjoyread

Finished Swordcrossed by Freya Marske a week or so ago. It was alright. It's very clear that she enjoyed her detailed world building a little too much