SPOILERS, FOR REAL PEOPLE. DON’T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T EXPERIENCED THE DELIGHT THAT IS THE MOONSTONE.
Holy crap it’s over! AND IT WAS GODFREY THE WHOLE TIME!! And despite his constant shady ways, I never saw it coming. I suck.
Also, who’s so much better than I thought he would be? Ezra Jennings. Cause I totally thought he was gonna be all creepy and malicious, but Wilkie sure proved me wrong on that one and instead made him so awesome. And way nicer than most people would be, cause people were straight-up assholes towards him. Except for Rachel, she was sweet to him so she gained major points in her favor with that. Also, Franklin Blake is THE MOST BORINGEST NARRATOR EVER. Dude his chapters sucked. The last section of the book was totally saved by Ezra and the reappearance of Cuff & Betteredge. And that little Gooseberry kid.
Betteredge, I love you forever. “You shall be obeyed. The maggots notwithstanding, sir, you shall be obeyed.” Even if you were a total douche to Ezra, you were hilarious while doing so and I can forgive almost anything if it makes me laugh.
Soooo… am I supposed to have deep thoughts? I have none. I’m more like:
1. Betteredge is the man. So if Cuff. And Ezra.
2. I totally thought Lady V died in a weird way. I wish Wilkie had down more with that.
3. YAY Wilkie for not loving only white people, and for returning the Diamond to India in the end. Cause it would have been kind of jerky if Rachel & Franklin had recovered it and got to keep it.
4. I need to work “There’s a tract for that.” into more day-to-day conversations.
5. I need to write down ALL the hilarious Betteredge quotes down somewhere.
6. Holy crap still surprised it was Godfrey. That sly bastard.
7. W. C. loves his opium. For reals.
And I could probably go on for ages, except it would probably get boring. So my first experience with Wilkie = major giant thumbs up. Maybe this fall I’ll finally get to read The Woman in White and join in on all this Marian-lovin. Cause you guys seem to really dig her.
Love that way that the fur matches your giant beard, dude. Really minimizes your gigantic forehead.
It’s been fun guys! Can’t wait for the next one 
~Sarah
Oooh good point, maybe he grew his big beard to balance the forehead out.
You should TOTALLY read Woman in White. I think it’s better than Moonstone (but Moonstone was still excellent).
Betteredge with his notebook was SO GREAT. I didn’t even address that. All the Betteredge love.
There’s a tract for that should live on.
Has anyone done a study on the correlation between length of beards and giantness of foreheads? Someone should do that. Maybe it’s all in the science.
Someone needs to make an app called ‘there’s a tract for that.’ Then I can just whip out my phone. For serious.
And Franklin definitely paled in comparison to gloriousness that was Betteredge, Clack, and Ezra. More Clack!
OMG like the “That was easy button” from Staples. I have one of those, I wonder if I could re-program it somehow to say “There’s a tract for that.”
I agree that The Woman in White is maaybe better. Definitely some better characters at least (although… in The Moonstone it’s like everyone is really really good, but in WiW there are some AMAZEBALLS characters, and some who are so MEH. SO maybe it evens out. But still better. A bit)
I want to say ‘There’s a tract for that’ ALL THE TIME TO EVERYTHING, but no one would understand me. WHY CAN’T WE ALL LIVE NEXT DOOR TO EACH OTHER?!
Sorry for all the shouting. I’m getting excited on the last readalong day, obvs!
There should be a city of something just for book bloggers. And we can all flock there and talk about books and the inside jokes ALL THE TIME. Yup, if I ruled the world that would totally happen.
The Woman in White! And if you can manage, break it into the same sections we did and then you can rad the blog posts from April and it’ll be like you were *right there with us*!
LOL genius idea!
What a blast this has been! and you should watch out for those cap ribbons. There’s a tract for that.
Heheheee, cap ribbons
Goodness Clack was crazy.
I fully forgive Betteredge’s stupidness towards Ezra because he was so funny when he did it.
Read Woman in White! And then you can appreciate Marian cos seriously, she is so amazing. So amazing.
See, anything is okay as long as it’s funny. People should really make more of an effort to be hilarious when they’re being rude.
Yes, FACT
Betteredge was so sassy in this last part! I loved all his nit-picking with the cupid wings and the burst buzzard and the perfect carpet-laying. I think he doth protest too much, though… Once the experiment got going he was way into it.
I’m going to reiterate, just in case you haven’t already been convinced: READ THE WOMAN IN WHITE! You will not regret it.
LOL he was such a jerk, questioning every single little thing. But he was still hysterical
I think he might still be my favorite character from the book.
REITERATED AGAIN. The Woman in White is definitely better. Take a solid 6 month Wilkie break, though, I’d suggest, before you read it. Gotta really get jonesing for more Wilkie.
W.C. DOES love his opium! All his quoting scientific books and saying people are ridiculous for discounting it as a legitimate medicine. There’s a tract for that.
I probably will take a long break, if only because these are his two most popular books and what if all his other ones suck? I have to spread out the goodness.