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Pat's stupidity, hypocrisy and lack of preparation ate irritating

Assuming this is like the documentary about stewardesses I recently watched. Another book I should skim.

This is so contemporary it's scary

Ouch the narrator misspeaks the title in his first sentence. Not an auspicious start!

Didn't WWIi end in 1945???? Why does the author say 1946??

George Washington didn't have any children so he can't have had a son.

Yet another book that needs significant excisions. Almost halfway and it just repeats her and her parents' mundane lives and endless financial issues because of her parents' irresponsibility.

Shouldn't Kate and the Amish call them(selves) Plain not Amish? And WHY is Kate proceeding with her investigation when she's clearly been drugged? Utterly ludicrous.

Some hubris to say "the first and only" Code Talker autobiography. How does he know there won't be others?

You can't tell if someone was 7 or 15?!

2% in and I'm already bored.

So much passive voice, x-ong of or ridiculous phrasing like "the interruption of a collective continuance of a people." Seriously? This is a good book stop ruining it by writing like this.

Ugh can we stop writing things like "when X's arrival" instead of "when X arrived"? Everything isn't possessive! It's not "Y's death" etc.

Completely thrown out if this audiobook when it sudden became first person about the author's process.

I grew up in Texas but don't recall learning about Juneteenth in school. But then I left in elementary school.

Ugh enough with romance. I don't like Jane Austen and this doesn't help.

Phrases authors need to stop using: his/her/their own, first and only child, etc.

And enough with the redundancies. "She never remarried and remained a widow for the rest of her life."

Enough with the damn baskets

Tired of "the railroad Chinese".

The abortion providers might not be able to reveal the identities of women picketers who have abortions but other patients should blackmail them.

This is the kind of history Smith needs to teach. And I hope Phyllis Schlafly (among many others) is burning in hell.

A bit repetitive of Strangers in the Land but less a recitation of excruciating detail which is nice but still the subject is repetitive of other books.

The professor is great! Articulate and funny.

"The pupils of his eyes". Where the hell else do you have pupils?!

Annoyed at how he keeps saying that "there can't be any more artifacts related to Y" despite people telling him about things. Granted it can sometimes be a lie but still.

Listening to this so hadn't noticed typos until " Diana Prince of Wales Memorial Fountain."

Stunned at how brazen Smallwood is in describing the routes he took or where the escaped slaves took. So reckless.

I learned that eco-psychologists exist

I was not expecting to have a lengthy section on berserkers and walrus.

I don't think "children were less affected by COVID-19" is a good way to start a book....