Status Updates From Professor Martensi ärasõit

Can't pinpoint whether the book has gotten materially better in the past 100 pages or if I'm just on its wavelength now... It works much better as a character study than a commentary on European power struggles in the early 1900s; in trying to be both in equal parts it shoots itself in the foot.

"Through the thin, tight-fitting blouse her breasts looked small, trusting, fearless." Why do male writers always try to personify women's breasts?? It's so bizarre

This book is so boring it gave me BORING DREAMS