Status Updates From Unstuck in Time: A Journey ...

I read Hocus-Pocus a couple years back in the hospital waiting for Baby2 to arrive and this here summary reminds me I may not have paid terribly close attention.

Makes me want to go back to Bluebeard straightaway.

The chapter on Slapstick was shorter and far more speculative than those on his more celebrated books.

Sumner helped me appreciate more what I personally consider two lower-tier Vonnegut titles (Mr. Rosewater and B of Cs)—both strike me as clumsy and crude, but Sumner argues for why they couldn't have been any other way.

Though the summaries of Vonnegut's novels run too long, this Sumner guy's got a lot of good insights.

I'm told this does not fit the criteria of 'a beach read.' Um, hello? Doesn't anything I read on the beach instantly qualify as such?