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Rereading for my completionist brain seeking to put down reviews and thoughts for all books I have read and recorded here.

Also, I don't remember much from my first visit. But so far, I feel I am enjoying it far more than my first time.

When you only read a chapter at a time to a kiddo for bedtime, progress will be slow. Especially during a time of sleep regression.

So far this has a lot of the hallmarks of a Redwall story I tend to enjoy. A hero held captive by bad guys and troublemakers galore. I'm not sold on the big bad, but there's time yet for him to increase his infamy.

This is what happens when you impulse books you find on your local library's shelves.

Though without reading the synopsis, I was a little bit confused by the character introductions off the top. It took me reading the synopsis to get my bearings as to who are our heroes and what are we doing.

I can only abscribe insanity behind why I own a physical copy. That and I had once had an era of reading sports books.

Maybe this will make me feel better about how much the Leafs sucked this season. Whether it makes it a good or bad book is yet to be determined.

In a way, Part 3, subtitled 'Survivor' was a tougher read than Part 2, her 'Prisoner' arc. Yes, Part 2 was far more graphic, but Part 3 is where we see the consequences of the abuse and the repercussions of her being trafficked, both the lack thereof with Epstein and his associates as well as the price she paid speaking out.

In some ways, that is more horrifying. And what it says about us as a society.

It's about time I tackle another free ebook off my vast unread collection of them. This one is for a monthly keyword reading challenge and the excuse I needed to get it stricken.

Although I thought this was a pure historical romance. But there's a sorcerer...

Did I get deus ex machina'd? On at least one thing that I thought would be a major storyline, I feel like I got deus ex machina'd.

This book is making me think and compare my experience with the Sword of Truth series. Just for perspective on ways I've changed as a reader.

Trust Dan Brown to stick to the formula. It gives the whole thing a familiar feeling. And yet, you don't know how he's going to end the book either. Not really anyway.

Though I could have done without Brown utilizing a particular movie genre trope on a key element.

Also, second straight book on H2M by Brown reminds me of Sir Conan Doyle and his interest in the occult later in life.

To state the obvious, this book is a hard read. I actually had to take a few days off to be in the right mindset to get the last few chapters of part 2 done. Or at least, be in a place where her story didn't utterly destroy my mood.

This is seriously a story you need to embrace with care.

This is literally the first Redwall book that is not a reread in over a decade for me.

Also, I'm pretty sure I bought this when it was first released. I never read it because the post-Matthias Redwall era books largely underwhelmed me. Though that may also be due to me finally aging out of enjoying the series.

But I have a pipsqueak to read it to. And I'm so close to finishing the series that I just had to.

I'm having a lot of fun with the premise of the book so far. I do wonder at the underlying morality of the characters and the meaning behind the direction this book is going at the moment and what it signals as far as the author's intent is. What power means to him and what those in power represent.

All intriguing theories I'm enjoying while consuming this.

Have you ever read a book and found a glaring but unimportant continuity error that niggles at you after the fact? Found one in a scene earlier here that has honestly put me in a bit of a cynical mood.

I like spicy scenes as much as the next person, but it's feeling like a lot. Not in an illogical or shoehorned in way but a "I'm bored by this" way.

This is giving me similar feelings to Origin. In that this journey is a modern puzzle rather than an ancient one, giving it a distinctly science fiction aura, particularly given its central premise.

Which is fine enough and entertaining in its own aspect, but is also less fun for me in terms of exploration.

Another library hold that has come due that I decided to take the jump on as I currently don't have a nonfiction on the go right now.

Obviously given the subject matter this is not going to be an easy read. Luckily the other 3 books I have running right now can act as a palate cleanser for it.

Finally got some good bedtime story sessions the last few nights and enabled us to get through a few good poems.

Though if someone told me the Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout poem was in here, I would not have believed it.

The tone of Ana is very Sherlockian, which I enjoy (and can say with some authority having actually read a few of the books). But I didn't like that our first case was not something we could have solved ourselves due to not having the requisite knowledge of the world this is taking place in. So common sense does not apply.

But it remains entertaining.

Impulsed this off my local library's shelves. Though the fact this book is over 600 pages long makes me sideeye it.

I was hoping to reread more Langdon books before getting here but hey, when the opportunity strikes...

Dan Brown has always been a guilty pleasure of a read. Though I broke my stance on reading synopses for this one and now I'm a little worried how good the mystery is going to be.

The reading experience of this (audio)book has been equivalent to watching a Marvel movie in terms of sheer entertainment value. And I only say this in the most complimentary of ways.

But it's not like I picked up this book expecting some revolutionary thinking. I knew what I was getting picking this up.

All that said, I'm kind of sick of the word "mate."

Convergence has finally happened and... Still waiting. For what I cannot say without laying down spoilers. But at this point less than 100 pages from the end, few of the loose threads have been tied.

The quotability of the book has increased since the halfway point. As if war increases introspection.

The library hold of this book finally came through just as I finished a different library book so score one for me.

I got it because I'm in a little bit of a mystery kick and the reviews by others on this intrigues me.

It hit during the subway scene why I'm having an easier time with the audiobook than the ebook.

Parts of this book is written like a stream of consciousness. A style that I admit to not being particularly fond of.

Nevertheless, I find myself frequently having to stop to highlight passages on society and humanity and books. It definitely is a thinker.

I'm still waiting to see what it was that made this book a Pulitzer Prize winner.

The writing is fine, but not groundbreaking in its prose or artistic in its execution. It's actually incredibly pedestrian in its presentation if you ask me.

As for the story, it's... Well it's slow. Not a whole lot has happened, and whatever has taken place doesn't feel significant. That could change, but I'm getting impatient.

I admit, I'm finding the wordplay of this book, painting a picture of the hypocrisy of this world, to be really fascinating. Both in introspection and extrospection ways.

It is interesting the juxtapose of a world that evolved into focusing on making its people "happy" and this one driven to giving users dopamine hits to keep them engaged.

After juggling what amounted to three thinkers, none of which were fantasy, for books over the last few days, I decided I needed something that was so completely tonally different from the rest as a mental palate cleanser. This has been on the docket since reading the filler piece in January. And it checks all my boxes.

May it be as entertaining as the first.

Logging some last thoughts before I finish this, which is likely sometime tonight. Mostly to say I remain bemused by how much was discovered since this was written. An example being we have since learned what made the 1918 flu so deadly to young adults - cytokine storms.

Science is ever changing, which makes these kind of books a challenge as far as what it teaches.

Nearly two hundred pages in and I haven't yet gotten the reason what the connect is between our two main POVs besides proximity at a certain point in the war. Like I get why they may be important in the context of the story, but not how they relate to one another.

It's a nice enough read so far. But I feel its nothing really spectacular to this point.

The thing I keep thinking while reading this is that it reminds me of Neil Degrasse Tyson's Cosmos series. There's just so much overlap between the topics it discusses, the history, people, theories and inventions it explores and the conversational style it uses in delivering the information to us.

This one is denser. But Degrasse Tyson didn't have 16 hours in which to break down his topics as Bill Bryson does.

Getting through these have been a bit of a struggle lately due to transitioning the little one's sleeping arrangement, leading to some battles around bedtime.

I will say, I am enjoying these poems so far more than the ones in Falling Up. They're still weird but as a whole so far much less macabre feeling.

I've been #1 in the hold line for this ebook at my library for the last month waiting for the right time to unsuspend the hold to read it.

I can't say if this is indeed the right time but it is a time. And it would be good to get this off the hit list at last.

It really did not take me very long to realize why the original, unabridged version of this audiobook is not made widely available to the masses.

It's dated by the advancements in science since it was published in 2003.

Nowhere is this more evident than how it talks about Pluto as a planet. So imagine my amusement at how it talks about how good it is that it remains one.