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She really goes out of her way to give unsympathetic characters unpleasant physical traits - fat, sweaty, bad breath, dandruff, dowdy clothing, bald patches. It’s super off putting how consistently she does this. No subtlety. Matthew a cheater, Murphy a drunk… they can’t just be selfish, unsupportive, or uncommunicative. She can’t help but make nasty characters really nasty.

What did Robin do with herself between 20 and 25?

I don’t want to shock anyone but Gabriel just forged an Old Master in record time. Nobody will spot the forgery and it will auction for millions in a room full of experts.

I wonder how the caper will be derailed? Will Gabriel save the woman? How many gunshots/beatings/explosions will he miraculously survive?

This may be my last Gabriel Allon novel. I can’t take any more chilled white wines and darlings.

Meh. I’m listening because Edoardo Ballerini, but I don’t care about the story very much. 1.

I’m 10% in and I’ve been hit in the face with how formulaic Silva is, and how terrible his dialogue.

I don’t know if I’m up for this book. It’s gruesome and I can’t imagine it having a happy ending.

There sure is a lot of exposition in this book.

The author came for Doris Kearns Godwin’s Team of Rivals. Not impressed.

Death Comes to Bath got a little silly but this one is jumping the shark.

I’m loving this book. Interiority; the gap between thought and speech; the foreignness of historical times; the tangled knot between a person’s essential self and the time and place to which that person belongs; the time travel we all engage in by living through time; the way an ancestor’s history determines our own lives. A fun read though I’m getting a little worried about how it’s going to wrap up.

Why am I reading about Mister Bingley instead of Mr. Bingley?

Having a hard time believing Crippen killed his wife.

Also it’s 100% the worst audiobook narration I’ve ever read.

This is painful. It’s like a car wreck. I can’t wait to finish it but I’m not going to abandon it.

This must be what it felt like to live under Stalin.

So… Dalio cut an executive’s salary in half because a subordinate had debt???

Weaponizing bonuses to create a hostile work environment. Nice.

Just read the episode about the Christmas singing. Ew. Ew. Ew. Not a good guy even a little. Ick.

What is he like as a husband and father?

Why couldn’t Dalit calculate the Sharpe ratio in house?

I’m giving up. This was stupid and ridiculous. I can’t believe they did poor Hamish so dirty.

The initial murder is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. I can’t believe I’m still listening to this mess. This is the last Hamish Macbeth I’ll be reading.

Great line: He had once read a headline about Diet Coke that was so worrying he had chosen not to read the article.

1. My heart is breaking
2. I hope someone has the good sense to make this series into a show or movie

This book is really hard to digest.

Just got to a part that seems to be describing the US economy.

“When we diet, what do we think we’re giving up, and how are we compensating for it?”

Also: capitalism is at the heart of wellness culture.

My reading this last year confirms just how thoroughly our lives have been impacted by capitalism, and the story of Weight Watchers is one more case in point.

Now that I’m close to the end I’m really finding this book thought provoking. A great sentence: Orthorexia is truly the malady of today’s bourgeois woman, what hysteria and fainting spells were to the Victorians.

This woman claims to be a weight that is 80 pounds more than me and 1 inch shorter, and yet she supposedly fits pants one size larger than me? Come on!!!