I am so glad to be done with book #927, The Albigenses by Charles Maturin. This is an epic tale of the Crusades and the romance between two knights and the women they love. While in theory this is a great story, I couldn't help but be very bored by it most of the time. The language was overwrought and excessive. One thing that really bothered me about this story was the footnotes - half of them were in French or Latin. My very limited ability in both languages did not make the footnotes at all helpful. I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't. Time to take a very short break for a fun book.
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