It is also why I finished the Name of the Rose which took me a year! I am not an unintelligent person and have read many 'difficult' books (
I had to I did an English degree) and it is not bad by any means but God that book was hard, LOL. And it is also why I will go back and finish Memoirs of a Geisha (although I found that kinda boring which is why I stopped) and that Dorothy Dunnett which again was really really hard. I'm saving that for the right mood because I know it will be rewarding if I can just understand what it all means!
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