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I realized I had read the author's previous book about being a fire lookout. As with that one, so much is about other people. That one was largely about her long distance boyfriend and this one is about her brother. Very little is about her. It's an odd blend of hubris and insecurity to write multiple memoirs but focus on other people.

I'm struggling to make myself pick this up. I really have to drag myself through the Jinao chapters. He's so insufferable. The world has promise and I could read more of Temi but the other POVs just annoy me. Apparently more POVs are introduced than what I've seen. Current plan is to wait until i get another new POV and if i don't love them I DNF.

DNF at 41%. I'm so bored. Skeptical it would handle the religious elements in a way I'd enjoy if I continued.

Fuck, does this character think about anything other than his bathhouse?

Far more entertaining than a science book had any right to be.

"She lay with her hands inert on his striving body, and do what she might, her spirit seemed to look on from the top of her head, and the butting of his haunches seemed ridiculous to her, and the sort of anxiety of his penis to come to its little evacuating crisis seemed farcical. Yes, this was love, this ridiculous bouncing of the buttocks and the wilting of the poor insignificant, moist little penis." 🤣

Putting down at 32% with the intention of eventually returning via ebook or physical. I just can't tolerate the audio narrator. He speaks like a news broadcaster reading a headline but for the entire book. This makes the listening experience, which due to the content is already stressful, even more overwhelming and exhausting.

Considering I placed an $80 book outlet order just because I wanted to order this book and needed enough to have free shipping but they had limited copies so I didn't spend time whittling down my order... I'm really glad I'm enjoying this.

Choreographed dancing to U2s With or Without You in a nightclub === auto-DNF. Phenomenally stupid book.

I'm bored and struggling to choose to listen to the audio over music or even the thoughts in my own head. Considering a DNF

Would insurance cover a trip?

"I'd put you right in a month at Cannes or Biarritz. But it mustn't go on, mustn't, I tell you, or I won't be answerable die consequences. You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly, healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on, you know. Depression! Avoid depression!"

DNF @ 32% surpassed (by far) my eyeroll quota.
Also perhaps I wasn't paying attention but where did the ingredients for the sancocho come from? The freezer is broken and they were only expecting to be there for a short while.

DNF @ 35% I don't like the structure of this. It's too much like a podcast script instead of a book and I don't like the fictional elements.
It has too much of the authors' voices. Not in the fact they're narrators as I love Scottish accents but the casual tone as if they're chatting back and forth.

I'm going to need some demons to come out soon. I'm bored and the audiobook narrator is pausing in seemingly odd places that is noticeable at even 1.8x speed.

DNFing at 56% I've hit my eyeroll quota and looking at reviews it doesn't seem like the author makes anything worthwhile from the ending.

What a dumb name.

Not my typical read but my current library list feels heavy and I want something fun and this was available.