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This book is not good.

This book deals with child rape and trafficking of young women for rape and I'm very angry that wasn't mentioned in the blurb. Hitting that plot while at work was very upsetting.

This is the saddest book I've ever read.

BOOK BAD.

Very compelling written. I started last night and finished it today. I'm still digesting the story.

Only just started this. Read the first chapter and I'm sucked it.

Second chapter makes more sense than the first, but wow, Samuel Gridley Howe was not quite the man everyone likes to make him out to be. Language is better in this chapter, and less background knowledge is needed, but still a bit dense.

First chapter is really 17th century philosophy heavy. I know why, but needs more context for the uninitiated.

Last chapter seemed more antiquarian than historic - all the analysis was at the end. Now on to "police inspector sorts his files".

I could deal with less loving descriptions of cats being massacred. Next up: "an extensive dossier of his city" by a townsman. *shrug*

Just finished the chapter on folk tales, about to start one on cats.