Status Updates From Pokój

That's it? Oh. Okay.

Review to come.

We are now talking about how juice cans are arranged on a factory conveyor built.
This book is like the Seinfeld of books.

I'm afraid that this one's feeling a bit too disjointed for me to enjoy.

Whenever Wolfe writes about sex it's either cringey or elicits a tedious sigh from me.

And now some book Alden and Lois were researching is reportedly a forgery.
Why was Alden even interested in it in the first place?

Wolfe was definitely a book man, I'll say that much.

I did not expect Amanda McKittrick Ros to be referenced in this book.

Ignore that previous update.
Alden immediately jumps from a casual conversion to asking the librarian out.

Alden immediately jumps from a casual conversion to asking the librarian out.

Julius' story ended somewhat interestingly, but my God, I'm glad that's over!

Well, something preternatural might be happening now.

Julius, you are so damn boring.

Julius, I'm sorry, but your backstory really isn't that interesting right now.

Oh, wait so the stories set in other time periods and cultures are stories Alden's telling to his doctor.

I do not know if that passage was directly lifted from A Thousand and One Nights or if it was Wolfe's own creation.

And now there's a jinni and a marid.

A Fabergé egg?

I have been liking this chapter about Olivia so far, it's really fleshing her out.

Wait, I thought Arabella was Alden's maternal aunt? Olivia was said to take care of his maternal grandmother but his grandfather never mentioned Olivia when he spent Christmas at his house, just his mom and Arabella.

Also, there's something about a sloth skull now.

And now there's a banshee that beat the snot out of a boy at some point.

Usually I can get the gist of what Wolfe is talking, but here I have no idea what he's saying. Was the thing about the tree leaves a commentary about race? I don't know...

I have no idea what's going on.

The narration style does remind me of The Obscene Bird of Night