Status Updates From Tales of the New World: Sto...

Checked it out again in my library system! Gonna finish it. Not bad, but the Mary Kingsley story is still my favorite so far.

Reluctantly have to put this "on hold" because I had to return it to the NYPL before I moved back to VA. Hoping my local library here has it... I loved the first short story about Mary Kingsley (now I want to read her writings!). Not so sure about this next story about Magellan and the translator that become infatuated with him. It's got like 20 more pages to it, though.

I am only this far after over a week of trying to read this. One of the least-engaging books I have read in months. Murray's organization is terrible--- it's like she spews out whatever is in her head, fasts forward without explaining the interim to the reader and keeps going like we should know what she's talking about. Don't know if I'll be able to finish this one by book club.