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Clearly I've got a theme going

Fairly different from the movie so far, like same broad beats but the details are different

Feels weird to judge a recount of a real life shipwreck by how entertaining of a story it makes, but this one just isn't holding me as much as The Wager did.

Okay, first thoughts: pretty long, so may fix the pacing issues I had with the movie. Parents don't tell her not to take the baby out, so I guess that backstory is going to be different. Baby snatching scene & chase is way less intense than the movie, maybe because the baby isn't screaming or anything.. like there's zero description of Mac's reaction

Look, I know realistically it would suck as anyone but a straight, cis, decently well positioned white man... but sometimes I still yearn for the era of discovery and adventure. If only we weren't all ignorant racist twats dying of now easily treatable illnesses.

Look, I feel for the family, but they also come off as fairly unreliable narrators. Not to say the overall sentiment isn't valid but like for example, this Babette (? audio, dunno what her name actually is) sure has a lot to say on Henrietta's thoughts and feelings, yet I highly doubt she could have any real idea of that considering her husband--the eldest child--doesn't even remember his mother.

Was confused by the pic of the woman on the edition I'm listening to bc googling Henrietta Lacks only comes up with one photo (used on the cover of other editions).. why would they put Oprah on the book?? Ofc they needed actors to represent ppl in a film, but are you trying to honour Henrietta Lacks or not, because replacing her image when you didn't need to is pretty disrespectful imo. At least use the irl Deborah??

Not very far in obviously, but initial thoughts.. interesting topic but the writing feels strangely young, like maybe the author typically writes YA or something, and I don't understand why she's putting so much emphasis on describing the looks of each woman she mentions as if that matters. Also feels like there's going to be a good deal of putting thoughts we could never actually know into people's heads.

K so I lied when I said I was gonna put this on pause lol. Lord Emsworth was fairly likable in the first two full length stories, a bumbling old space case, but in the shorter ones that have come after, he's.. just a bit of an ass ngl. And a crap father. I don't particularly like him anymore. And where'd Galahad go! He was the best character!!

Might put this on hold. After the first volume, it really shows that Wodehouse has one story that is just told over and over with the odd name change... a good, entertaining story, but it becomes a bit tiresome if you try to listen to all of it in one go.

Alright, here we go... am I familiar with Twelfth Night? Not really. Am I even going to bother searching up a quick summary? Probably not.

"People are hard to hate close up." Dr. Brené Brown, I think I have something of theirs on my list somewhere?

See the problem here is that Michael reminds me too much of this creepy guy who started borderline stalking me for months because he decided he was in love with me or something after like immediately after we met. So yeah. Hard to root for Michael when I know how awful it is to be on the other side of the attentions of a person like that.

"They strike me as the kind of overwrought liberals who are glad at the opportunity to finally be outraged at something happening to them."

Wtf?? This is immediately awful. And the narrator's character voices are ridiculous. What a waste of an audible credit.

This.. kinda sucks so far.... wayyy too insta attraction

I didn't mind Elliot's worshippy crush on serene, but they've taken it too far now :\

Ngl, it would be kinda cute to have Elliot and Adam date for a while... and maybe even somehow come around to Adam endgame... Obviously Luke is endgame, but y'know. Would just be more unexpected and interesting to switch it up. Plus Luke hasn't been very interesting so far, there's not a ton of chemistry.

Elliot is a fucking riot, a true 13 year old. I hope he stays this way.

Again. Ugh.

Aaaand again

Sex again. And hardly anything else has happened since the last time. Boring.

I don't think the narration is doing it any favours ngl

You'd think I'd be less icked out by sex scenes now that my personal circumstances have changed, but it's just as bad as ever... ew. Gotta zone out entirely or I just want to gag.

Oh, turns out I was mistaken.. instead of hanging around for a third act breakup, we've switched characters. Interesting.

Unfortunately not very into this.. and they're already together (and getting too physical too soon, sigh), which means we're getting the classic AH third act breakup. I mean, we would've gotten that even if they didn't get together until the 80% mark. But yknow.

Oh my god??? Just put the poor dog out of its misery, that was awfullll

"And as we lost the words, von Igelfeld thought, we lost the texture of the world that went with them."

The pacing in this book is awful. Why are we in the full swing of this stupid elopement plot that just came out of nowhere two pages ago.