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QOTD γHow has your reading been going, friends?
My February has been romantic & adventurous, chivalrous with a lengthy list of players, human & non-human, & set firmly in centuries past. For sure, my guilty pleasures have been satisfied. So, as it was at the end of January with Austen & the BrontΓ« sisters, Iβm ready for a break in style & a visit to new worlds: Iβve grown a bit tired of books where character indices are necessary, which doesnβt bode well for my mythology tbr. Quick note: Spoilers ahead. This monthβs reads were fun & more relaxing than I expected, considering that most of the time was spent running around 16th-century Europe. I love it when my reading overlaps in peculiar ways, especially when I learn of things after that keep me smiling for days like how the first English translation of Orlando Furioso (John Harington 1591) was published βat the behestβ of Queen Elizabeth I, who banned Harington from court until the translation was finished. (Oh, Lizzie.) I justβI canβt decide if Iβm more amused or annoyed that I βtimewalkedβ through Elizabethan England in All Souls Book 2 & I only got to meet Shakespeare at the endβ& he's only human, a scrivener/forger writing plays as a side hustle lol. I always suspected Kit Marlowe was the more interesting one. xo Noelani
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Love Poems by Pablo Neruda β
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Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness β
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βOnce I was enshrouded in the scent of paper, leather, and stone, some of the loneliness left me. This was a world I knew.β | Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night
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