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DNF

I wish Goodreads had a "save for later" area like Amazon does. I'm not finished and I plan to finish this . . . one of these days.

Did not finish

I loved this book and want to read it again.

Enjoyed, but had to take back to the library

Typically wonderful Pym!!! Reading her is so comforting in these weird times.

My best friend in high school wrote this book. Fascinating even to someone like me who has only been to Cincinnati a few times. Bravo, Polly!

I'm enjoying this cozy mystery, though it is a little bit boring. It centers on a town called Confection, where a book club called the Macaroons solve mysteries on streets with names like Lemonade Avenue. The main character, Lexi, a mystery writer and bookshop manager, thinks things like, "Holy Moly! Another corpse!" Her dog, Cookie, is also a major character. Second in a series.

I'm not sure I'm going to finish this. It does seem overwritten, and now I've read so much of the chatter about it--the New Yorker, the NYT, Peters' articles in magazines . . . I'm intrigued by the poster's comment that it is misogynistic, though . . .

Bought for husband's bday. Compared to W.G. Sebald.

I am not going to finish this.

Not finished but had to take back to library

Still reading. But deeply joyful.

I loved loved loved this book and will read and reread it again and again. One of our foremothers.

have not finished but am stopping for now!

could not finish

I enjoyed this collection of short essays about retirement, mostly because I live in the same city as the writer, and am wondering what retirement will bring. I think I know the set of condos where she lives. I know I know some of the people in her writing group. I admire the structure and plainness of some of these essays. I wonder how she’s doing now , and hope she’s all right.

Loved loved loved this book.

This isn't really a book you read straight through, and it is I hope now fewer than 5 years before I retire. Some of these things I have to take notes on because the topics feel so dense. I am skipping around in this and may come back to it in later years. I am trying to make a budget now while I am still working . . .

My son Ethan Coffel, who is an atmospheric scientist, first told me about this book when I asked him what I should read about climate change. Ethan had read the chapter on Heat, because David Wallace-Wells asked him to, to see if he had cited Ethan's research correctly. (p. 41, "Heat Death"). So I am a proud mother. But it is such a beautifully written book. Also very scary.

Reading What does a woman need to know, Compulsory Heterosexuality and lesbian existence, her small essay about Masters of poetry, and her long essay Motherhood and Daughterhood. How great a thinker she is. And how, unfortunately, right for our times. Still.

Who is better than Virginia Woolf? I read a bit every day at lunch. I am on page 70, it is 1919, and she is describing her friends. How does she make the minutia of her life so interesting?

I believe I am on the section called "Sisterhood" and I'm not sure I will finish this book. I have it as an audiobook, and listen at lunch, but I also read V. Woolf's diary at lunch, and the diary is winning out~

I believe I am on the section called "Sisterhood" and I'm not sure I will finish it. I have it as an audiobook, and listen at lunch, but I also read V. Woolf's diary at lunch, and the diary is winning out~