I finished The Count of Monte Cristo! Confetti falls from the sky, trumpets blast, we all slam down our glasses like Thor and shout, "Another!"

Well, maybe not another just yet. But now that I've discovered Dumas, I would like to read The Three Musketeers in the not-too-distant future.

( Spoilers for all of Monte Cristo )

I'm racing toward the end of The Count of Monte Cristo! Only about a dozen chapters left now - and so many threads to wrap up!!!

( How will the Count manage it all??? )

THE MOMENT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR HAS ARRIVED!!!

( SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY )

OH MY GOD THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO IS GOING TO KILL ME WITH SUSPENSE AND FEELS AND ALL I WANT IS MORE. All of the Count's plans are coming together ALL AT ONCE and it's so exciting and also MERCEDES.

( MERCEDES OH MY GOD )

We're moving right along in The Count of Monte Cristo! I'm about two thirds of the way through the book, and the plot-nooses are tightening around the necks of Dantes' enemies...

( Spoilers! )

I have been zooming through The Count of Monte Cristo this week! The wheels in the Count's plans are beginning ever so slowly to turn and it's gotten ever so much more exciting; it began to drag a bit there during the interminable section in Rome ( Read more... )

The Count has made it to Paris! The story is still staying firmly out of his POV, though, which disappoints me. I realize this makes it easier to hide the specifics of his plans for VENGEANCE, but I want to get back in his twisted angsty head ( Read more... )

The Count of Monte Cristo continues to reach new heights of delicious giddy absurdity. And there are still eight hundred more pages to go! How will Dumas continue to top what has come before? I'm not sure, but I'm sure he'll find something ( Read more... )

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

I’ve already reviewed it all!

What I’m Reading Now

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, which has just about broken me; it’s so sad I can’t even cry over it. Paul Baumer is an infantry soldier in the German army in World War II, who goes to the front, gets sent back from the front, loses this ( Read more... )

After much waffling and repeated warnings not to do it, I have gone ahead and started reading The Count of Monte Cristo. Somehow none of the warnings were as powerful as the fact that I actually own the book and it has been sitting on my shelf, taking up space and waiting to be read ( Read more... )