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The intriguing thing about reading this book is I find the details pretty boring for the most part but sometimes the grand sweep of it is captivating.

Alternating this with War and Peace probably isn't the smartest idea because this book is pretty badly written, but I checked it out from the library because of social media and I always feel obligated to try to read everything I check out from the library.

So far I'm engaged in the stuff that's happening back in Russia but frequently struggling to focus on the war scenes.

Given that this subject matter is already potentially alienating, suffusing the text with sarcasm and defensiveness is not a good move. It's not extreme, but it is annoying. This might be exacerbated by the performance of the audiobook narrator. It's really one of my biggest turn offs with books. It just makes you look so immature and unprofessional. It makes you sound like a rando on the internet.

When the sky falls, use it as a blanket.