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And now it switches to second person. Really not convinced by these stylistic conceits.

170 pages without a full stop is pretty taxing

This is the most tense catfishing I've ever read.

But... Shakespeare didn't write in "Middle English"?

oh no

Doubting he detects in her hesitation.

thanks Yoda

This book is so incredibly boring. I can't imagine how tedious it would be if she actually used full sentences.

"Idea of that, yes."

no.

Really interesting the way the book develops the underlying theme of fear of Catholic recusancy playing into the superstitions swirling at the time.

I'm really enjoying this -- but have no idea how to review it. Any comment is going to be swallowed by an ouroboros of meta.

The Brazilian Cat by ACD much better, a genuinely fun little story.

"Your leg is broken. Both shoulders dislocated, too. Tough night. Would you like some tea?"

These stories are mostly awful. Which is, in its own way, quite interesting. An encapsulation of the dreary state of fin-de-siecle writing. The Great War cannot come soon enough to blow all this up!

Fascinating and provocative chapter on the ethics of genetic research on Native Americans.

What an interesting first section. Highly unlikable -- and possibly unreliable? -- narrator.

In a happy synchronicity, the first story in his volume is The Man Who Would Be King, and I have just read about (a rather sub-Dravot) James Brooke of Sarawak in the Atlas of Extinct Countries.

Why am I finding this -- meant to be a page-turning thriller -- such a slog. Seems such a step down from Pilgrim.

Bathsheba what are you doing...