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This has got to be at least the third time I've picked up this book and started to read. I've gotten further before, but since it has been eons and I don't recall it, I'm starting fresh one more time. Here goes.

Delicious read! I consider myself, still, a new reader and am still finding my way on what enthralls me or repels me, the reader. I love this author's cadence and usage of words in a refreshing manner, never overusing more words than necessary but finding just the right ones that give fresh twists without seemingly trying.
I find myself longing to turn the page to see what lies ahead.

Boring as boring can get and, still, I am determined to finish just to say i did. It reads as a so and so begat so and so over and over.

Oooh.. off to a great start right out of the gate, just the way a great read should be.

Slow going. Only got interesting around page 100. That's further of a threshold I've set for myself. I've generally decided if a book isn't interesting at page 50 it's probably going in the do-not-finish pile. I gave this one longer just because of the "Fried Green Tomatoes" author.
It reads more like a "so and so begat so and so" yawner so far.

Hmm.Talk about racially unaware. Page 112. "THE GRAY CARD" talks about how to use the palm of your hand as a light meter. You can tell what's coming next. All assumption is your hand is Caucasian. An excerpt: "For obvious reasons, if the palm of your hand meters ...stop difference...either you are taking a reading off the palm of your hand in sunlight...or you forgot to take off your white gloves."
Really. 2021.

Intriguing.

Loving it!