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I’m only halfway through and I know I’m giving this book 3 stars. The stories themselves are not the problem, but how Sharon wrote them. The tangents are long and winding. The side comments about the stories’ relationship to the modern day actually take me out of the stories. Worse: How she tells it in the audiobook. Overacted and a bit grating.

The writing is beautiful, but not for a nonfiction book. I am reading this to learn something, and while I am being exposed to new perspectives, I just want to learn the facts with citations. I don’t need the flowery prose or speculation about what “probably” happened. Just get to the point. I’ll finish this, but reluctantly.