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'm about two thirds of the way through this book, and at last the Count's carefully laid plans are beginning to bear fruit! At least, his plans against Villefort and Danglars are; I'm not sure what his plan against Fernand is, and it's making me nervous.

And CLEARLY ( Spoilers! )

Happy Thanksgiving for my fellow Americans! This has not been a month to inspire much spontaneous gratitude - hell, it hasn't been much of a year for inspiring gratitude - but we did have a very nice duck for dinner, and I have at last discovered a recipe that fills the hole in my heart left by the grocery store that discontinued its peanut butter ( Read more... )

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... )

For various reasons I haven't gotten very far in The Count of Monte Cristo this week, so there isn't much to report...

Oh! Except that I think I may have met a prospective Runaway Lesbian, which is of course what we all read Monte Cristo for. In one brief chapter, Danglars' daughter Eugenie has been repeatedly compared to Diana the Huntress; she ( Read more... )

The Count has made quite a splash in Paris! Now everyone wants to know his name, and at last he can get going on some good hardcore vengeancing.

( Spoilers! )