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Ex Libris Kirkland is my entirely self-centered way to keep track of what I
read, what I like, and what I want to remember.


 * MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY
   
   
   ANTHONY TROLLOPE


 * LUCY UNDYING
   
   
   KIERSTEN WHITE


 * GETTING EVERYTHING YOU CAN OUT OF ALL YOU'VE GOT
   
   
   JAY ABRAHAM


 * TITUS GROAN
   
   
   MERVYN PEAKE

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RECENT QUOTES 📖

 * He spoke English so well that he would only be known to be a foreigner by the
   correctness of his language.
   
   AN EXCERPT FROM MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE IN 1882

 * You are about, I am informed, to proceed to the United States, a country
   against which I acknowledge I entertain a serious antipathy. They are not a
   gentlemanlike people, and i am given to understand that they are generally
   dishonest in their dealings. Their President is a low person, and all their
   ideas of government are pettifogging. Their ladies, I am told, are very
   vulgar, though I have never had the pleasure of knowing one of them.
   
   AN EXCERPT FROM MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE IN 1882

 * [Trollope and his pillar-boxes!]
   This letter, when she had written it and copied it fair and posted the copy
   in the pillar-box close by, she found that she could not in any way show
   absolutely to her mother. In spite of all her efforts it had become a
   love-letter. And what genuine love-letter can a girl show even to her mother?
   But she at once told her of what she had done.
   
   AN EXCERPT FROM MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE IN 1882


RECENT NOTES 📓

 * This Trollope is very structured around its parallels; we’ve got two cranky
   old men both determined to subvert the entails on their estates (with
   different degrees of success). A side plot, but equally notable, are two
   women who just KEEP getting aggressively proposed-to, from men who just will
   not take no for an answer. And this happens not in a cute, romantic way; but
   an infuriating way, where it’s maddening for the women as well as us, the
   reader.
   
   AN NOTE ABOUT MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE IN 1882

 * Apparently one of the last of Trollope's novels; it's the story of a cranky
   old man who conspires to subvert the entail on his property, with some legal
   wrangling and much trouble for those around him. Not a highlight of his body
   of work, but I am still enjoying it.
   
   AN NOTE ABOUT MR. SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE IN 1882

 * I was sent an ARC for this (which was AWESOME) but I'm not sure if there's
   any implication to embargo a review. So this is a placeholder for...
   September, when this book actually comes out!
   
   AN NOTE ABOUT LUCY UNDYING, WRITTEN BY KIERSTEN WHITE IN 2024

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