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A story. A relief.

Slow. Like the desert

Page 21 and I reach the book proper. The first intro was by Robert (no relation) Macfarlane and was full of big words that I didn't understand. If the author hadn't been dead 30 years I'm sure he'd have kicked up a real stink! The second intro was by the author. That was much better. Eases my way into the book proper, which I'll start tomorrow.

A right rivetting read.

Gathering a little pace now. A tad more action. A soupçon more interesting.

I can't think of a darned thing to say about what I'm reading other than the story is progressing. Slowly. Mysteriously.

Amazingly quick read. Sun reader level? Makes me want to raise money for the cause. But I know I won't, because I always move on to the next thing. Sigh.

A particle that makes people good. Hmm, colour me intrigued.

Too quick a read for such important matters.

Need more time to read this than I have or am willing to give.

And then there's the end matter that you just scan or skip. Who could read an index any other way?

And he's a goner.

Smoothly good. Like pureed food.

Last chapter - and you know what that means!

Yay!

Like watching someone's life in fast forward. Interesting but oh so brief.

Ten pages per chapter? That's short. Punchy. Nice.

Read a whole chapter to the wife. She was charmed at first and then bites at last.

Ah-ha - the teen thief meets the to die spy! I like this. 😀

I know, I know - I should have read to the end of the chapter to be able to give me any chance of knowing what's going off when I pick it up again. But it's late. And I'm tired. And I'm going to go to bed now. Nighty-night.

Only another couple of hundred pages to go and Tolstoy is fine (for). I don't guess I enjoy seeing the decline of people.

I like this teenage thief character. Should be interesting when she meets the spy who might die.

I looked up what happened to Tolstoy's family in the Russian Revolution and what I found surprised me!

This is actually quite a magnificent book.

This might well be interesting.

Get better, Tolstoy.

Bonkers?

You know, if you watch a weird sci-fi movie just before reading this book, it makes Tolstoy seem really strange.

Then he finds God! This is quite an amazing guy all-in-all.

Promising start. Although, have people learned nothing of manners in the space age! Makes you wonder.