Status Updates From The Nimbus

Loving it, especially the Hyde Park setting.

Oof, the bold font words at the beginning of each section are difficult to see.

the setting is SO thinly veiled ("the Committee for Social Research, an idiosyncratic academic entity known internationally for the preponderance of Nobel Prize winners it counted among its faculty and known locally for its astounding success in rendering its graduate students unfit for the academic job market") but points off for renaming the Div School basement coffee shop something other than "Holy Grounds"

“But as he approached fifty he’d become increasingly suspicious of anything that smacked of whimsy or uncomplicated glee. More and more he seemed like the kind of serious person who speaks seriously about the importance of being serious.”

WILD experience to read a book blatantly set in the neighborhood where you currently live. like yeah that sure is a ten minute walk.

taking breaks from my grad school reading with a novel that will transport me to the fantastical locale of *checks notes* the University of Chicago Divinity School