The mac n cheese is obviously a travesty, but can we talk about those mashed potatoes?!?!?? They look like cement.

I actually loved this about it. I learned so much, and HH Holmes has been told so many times on his own.

Everyone is saying paper bag, but have you put a banana next to them?

Feeling the sudden urge to reread Speaker for the Dead for exactly this reason.

I have Hurin’s battle cry, but I fear without his axe it may not be very helpful.

The goofy guy with a dark and angry side in response to all the pain 10 had to endure. It’s just so good, and your heart just breaks for his silliness. I’m a DT girly, but Matt 100% got the assignment.

It was one of my least favorite reads in undergrad. And yet the lecture and discussion of unwinding the Dickensian prose and style is one that I still think about all the time. Professors assign it knowing it is difficult. It is a great way to teach how to think.