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My brain needs a rest, and I think this will do nicely.

Chapter 1: induces a case of the Ick stronger than rubbing raw chicken on your face.
Chapter 2: Monosyllabic and irritating AF.
What incomparable joys will Chapter 3 hold?

Interesting, mostly, but a little hard to read. Think it would good to break this up & not plow through start to finish.

It takes a minute to get drawn into this, but once you are, it's tough to put down.

The cover is so good I'm not sure that I even care if the book is.

Not a light read, you know? Thankfully, Anderson's writing is extremely accessible.

Off to a terrible start, but i am interested in the Taiwanese setting, so I continue.

I'm not sure what to make of this, but so far I don't dislike it.

A biography about a female evangelist is an unusual choice for me, but it's good so far.

Whiplash. What????

disappointing so far.

I've bought this book in the 90s, and as i begin to make my way through it, i wish I had picked it up sooner. Travel writing can bloviate
tediously, but Chatwin is precise and lapidary.

If I had a child as odious as Louisa, I would send it back to the factory for a reset, because surely this piece of merchandise is defective.

Why am I reading a history of exercise & fitness? I don't know, but it's just interesting enough to keep going.

This is so good.

This is all right, but it's rather slow, and keeps referring to events that happened in one of the previous novels in the series. I haven't read that, so it's a little confusing... and irritating too.

Some dude on the internet said this was good, and so far, I don't disagree.

This is... odd.

Over the years, I have accumulated a lot of Big Books - kept buying more, but never seemed to be reading any of them. So I'm reading one of them, and thanks to Steinberg's accessible and plain writing style, I find it pretty good so far.

I had to read over 500 pages of a 750 page book to realize I've already read it before. Does that say something about the book, or something about me?

Of all the things I might have expected from this book, a *pirate story* is not one of them! 🏴‍☠️🦜🏴‍☠️

I just have this feeling that I am not going to like Saul Bellow.

Galton Flood, you are the worst, the very worst of men.

They say this book is about hope. I don't think I've gotten to that part yet. All I feel is despair about chronicle of crushing greed and insanity that has overtaken the American political system.

I am sure i already read this once a long time ago. Though i remember nothing else, I'm pretty sure I didn't like it. We'll see how it goes this second time around.

I kind of hate this book.

It started by giving the Ick, but as it goes on, this book becomes ever more deeply fucked up.

I really can't decide whether to give up on this or not. Which probably means both that i should, and that i won't.

Spectacular drawings, terrible story. Not sure if i will make it through this.

I don't love the narrative, but the writing is so pretty.