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26% complete! StoryDragon has read 11 of 42 books.
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
I really love the description of Ree figuring out where they are.
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Content warning The Beautiful Decay; tiny spoiler.
'Phaw. You never shut up about your ghastly university. "Youngest graverobber ever to graduate" or whatever nonsense'
— The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva (Tombtown, #2) (Page 75)
Lol.
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Content warning The Beautiful Decay; Slight spoiler.
Ree stared at her. 'You only targeted the fungi? But you couldn't even see all of it.' Andomerys shrugged. 'With the right parameters in your spell, you can be very precise.'
— The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva (Tombtown, #2) (Page 54)
Lovely
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Content warning The Beautiful Decay. Quote on p. 33; barely a spoiler, but could be.
But of course when she got in, it was to find a slip of paper sitting on the table beside her lacework.
Travelling with Andomerys. Scry if I'm not back in a week.
No indication where, or why. As considerate as always.
So Usther packed her things and left her own ambiguous note. She hoped her housemate found it galling.
— The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva (Tombtown, #2) (Page 33)
XD
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. And crimson fungi are spreading. …
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous …
Content warning Shakespeare; beheading
Queen Margaret.
Off with his head, and set it on York gates; So York may overlook the town of York.
— Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (Page 72)
Ah, what are they all nice to each other.
This really is a thought-provoking book, and I did quite enjoy most of it.
Content Warnings: War, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Grief. I was unprepared for the amount of loss in the end of the book. It made me enjoy the book less...
I did not enjoy the end...
'Gentlemen, the more words you employ to flatter the ladies the fewer you define. Your constant use of the English language is, in fact, doing it a disservice.'
— Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Page 233)
Lol.
Sarah never insisted on conversation and was unusually clumsy with small talk - she once responded to a comment on the weather by explaining the relationship between barometric pressure and rain - so our journey was silent for the crunch of gears and the occasional disparaging comment about other people's driving.
— Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Page 202)
Ah, recognizable... I know someone who might actually start explaining the relationship between barometric pressure and rain, on hearing someone comment on the weather.
Content warning The Dictionary of Lost Words - Spoiler; Maybe blasphemy?
[...] Your situation is not as rare as you might think. Many a young lady of means or education has found herself similarly inconvenienced. It is the oldest dilemma in history - the Virgin Mary, indeed! (Please don't read this aloud to Lizzie, I know she would not approve.) [...] Yours, Ditte
— Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Page 188 - 189)
Our thinking was limited by convention (the most subtle but oppressive dictator).
— Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Page 114)
Bondmaid was no fledgling word, and its meaning disturbed me. Lizzie was right; it referred to her as it referred to a Roman slave girl.
Dr Murray's rage came back to me then and I felt mine rising to meet it. It should not be, this word, I thought. It shouldn't exist. Its meaning should be obscure and unthinkable. It should be a relic, and yet it was as easily understood now as at any time in history. The joy of telling the story faded.
"I'm glad it isn't in the Dictionary, Lizzie. It's a horrible word."
"That it may be, but it's a true word. Dictionary or no, bondmaids will always exist."
— Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Page 113)
