Popping in because so many people are marking this as "interested" because of the quest. As part of my undergrad, I studied Victorian and Romantic poetry, with a particular focus on Christina Rossetti, who ended up my dissertation subject.

I think Goblin Market is one of the finest works of English language poetry, and a fascinating, moving exploration of female agency amongst other things.

Rossetti's work is so complex, and despite her fame, I still don't think she is afforded the critical celebration that her work deserves. Will be keen to see what others think!

I think I am going to DNF this one. I just can’t get into it and don’t really care about the characters or what’s happening. I’m lowkey disappointed because I loved the Netflix series adaptation of this book.

Hey book besties! About a decade ago, publishing companies once had pocket sized or mini versions of popular books such as The Fault in Our Stars and If I Stay. There was also a limited mini edition of the Throne of Glass series too, which I am salty about not getting the whole series since they are now selling for about $100-300 each 🫠. I'm just curious to see if there's any publishers left that still do mini or pocket sized editions of their books?

Justice for gruel 😤😤 everyone is always so repulsed by it whenever I come across it in fiction, I don't know why 😭😭 if you think it's too bland just season it !!! you can make it sweet or spicy, it's so versatile!!! (obviously here they didn't have spices and her hypochondriac father may not even add honey but they're rich so it's still probably definitely made with milk instead of water, and a good quantity of cereal, aka many a student meal for me lmao) love you gruel love you porridge love you staple crop with ingredients