Waking up every morning just to read more of the Laundry Lists and Love Songs by A.G. McDowell and find out the hot new village gossip including:

• "This Guy Keeps Having Affairs With People's Wives Please Make Him Pinkie Swear He'll Stop"
• "I Gave This Dude Stuff So He Could Buy Me A Donkey But He Keeps Bringing Me The Worst Asses I've Ever Seen"
• "Half My Kids Suck So They Get Nothing From Me Also This One Daughter Is On Fucking Thin Ice"
• "Hey This Is MY Government Assigned Family Tomb GTF Out"
• "Why Is Your Son So LAZY?"
• "This Worker Guy Is Also A Doctor So He's Excused From Work Bc People Keep Getting Sick"
• "I Keep Trying To Move In With This One Woman And She Keeps Tossing My Stuff On The Street Whyyyyy"
• "I Know We Haven't Hit Ground Water Yet But We Did Another Survey And I Promise If We Just Dig A Liiiiittle Further We'll Actually Have A Well (they did not get a well, they got a large very dry hole in the ground filled it with trash)"
• "OMG It RAINED!!!!"

honestly teared up though when a dad answers his daughter's worries of where she'll live (if her husband leaves her) by telling her he may not own his house but he BUILT this one storeroom himself and NO ONE IN THE LAND will throw her out of that

12/10, excellent book so far

It truly is an excellent book, and I don’t think I’ve made a better purchase. If you want to know what the Ancient Egyptians were like outside of a tomb context, especially textual sources, then really that’s your book. Deir el Medina is every small village/town you’ve ever known, and humans haven’t changed at all.