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I'm digging the character- and world-building, but based on reviews, I guess I kinda expected the prose to be a little more... interesting? Memorable? It feels quite utilitarian.

The description says the characters aren't who we think they are, but I'm almost halfway and I'm pretty sure this is the BBC's 2010 Sherlock.

Still not sold on the "romance" aspect, but Large Francis remains (in absentia) the highlight of this endeavor.

Oh, Large Francis, you are a delight.

I will actually be impressed if this goes full body horror with a stone baby.

The image of Bartholomew in a pink dress - complete with hennin - almost makes up for the amnesia plot.

I'm in a race to finish this before the free version disappears. I know I read it in 8th grade, but I don't remember much. Surprised to see so many "new technologies" like a camera, searchlight, and typewriter in use.

A feminist manifesto framed as food. A shared read with my mother, who apparently dug it out of a bargain bin.

I can see why this is controversial. Even the premise at the heart of the theory seems contradictory.

Turns out I'm willing to listen to an audiobook at normal speed if it's a road trip to Prague and friend and I both get to interrupt with eye-rolling commentary.

I should probably track down a summary of books 1 & 2 because apparently I remember nothing other than a general sense of characters' personalities and setting.

Good book, terribly unreliable audiobook narrator who can seemingly only get 10 words out before an inopportune pause and keeps varying the sound level from one paragraph to the next.

New demon, new host, new mechanics, but please let there be new shenanigans!

I never thought I'd associate Mary Roach of all people with "old man yells at cloud" energy, but here we are... I guess Reader's Digest is to blame.

Not sure I'm a fan of being toad-less.

I never thought I'd read a Mary Roach book that feels so... dated.

Why must everyone be a werewolf!?

For a book about seafaring, this is awfully dry.

Finally tackling some birthday reading backlog.

Pretty easy to read this as a predecessor of the Penric novellas, even if it's set in Medici Florence. Keeping the same audiobook narrator (Grover Gardner) is probably contributing.

Going in blind. Is this... a fantasy of manners with cannibal dragons?

Kind of crazy to see an anecdote from a lecture 10 years ago suddenly taking up a few chapters in real time discovery (and failure).

Unexpected "man of science" enters the fray.

Enter... The mecha-dragon!

I got my hands on an ARC via Goodreads giveaway. Let's see how it goes. Tonally, it's already a shift from the previous Ruta Sepetys books I've read (all of them). Maybe it's actually highly accurate flapper wording and I just don't know enough to appreciate it, but the dialogue feels off, even if the looming, creepy mansion is there. Unsure if the back copy is as spoiler-y as I think it might be - must finish first.

An abbreviated biography of George Washington, with a focus on his mental and emotional state (and hypocrisies). This one's not glossing over his complicacy in various massacres and his personal looming debts, but is attempting to give a more balanced history with some historical and political context for the time.

Definitely could have benefitted from a summary ahead of time since the first brick was so long ago.

My first listen with giant "don't talk to me" headphones, and for once - no garbled Pfälzisch conversations in the middle of an un-pausable audiobook.