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I cannot be doing with this. I was trying to at least get to the promised Othello references, but I’m not enjoying it at all.

This is either going to be a wild success or very much Not For Me. Current first impressions - 1984 meets Catch 22. The prose is a bit odd, like it’s trying a bit too hard to be funny. But if it was managing to be funny, I’d be reminded of The Hitchhikers Guide. Fibber is in jail, he’s been accused of violating a goose and now he’s being required to recite poetry. It’s all go, over here.

The book has found it’s rhythm now - the combination of the space race with the march of civil rights. Examining how the US scolded itself for potentially hamstringing its own scientific progress by denying black children the same schooling opportunities as white children. Maybe the push for Civil Rights that came from the White House wasn’t a moral quest - it was politically expedient.

I think, if I hadn’t watched the movie, I would be struggling to continue. The subject matter of segregation and the experiences of a black woman are a worthy read, but it is quite a dry prose, that aims to give a history of USA avian innovation as well as the women’s stories. I understand that they are intertwined, but I’m not as gripped as I thought I would be