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Will not waste my time trying to follow this silly book, which tries to hard to be a scientific/psychological/crime novel. With meaning. Just makes me want to laugh.

Climbing inside the brain of a scientist who loves literature is a rare treat. Loving this! Should slow down, but find that I can’t.

Had to stop reading because my e-book loan expired and Libby snatched the book right out of my hands and returned it to the library. Sad. Will finish after an estimated 5 week wait.

Thoroughly enjoying this story! Just intellectual enough and just clever enough in character to keep leading me on. This is not just another version of the same old story. Hoping it holds.

Irritated with the jarring flashbacks. About ready to throw this book out in the rain, but I’m invested in the main character at this point, and so I won’t. Reading on.

Stalled on this one. Will get back to it eventually

Did I start this book? I may have started this book, but I have no recollection of it, and I have no idea where it is. I'll get back to you on this, if I ever find it.

Picked this up at a library sale because I knew the author in college and loved Road to Wellville. The people who live in this book are people I have known (not these particular people, but many like them.) can't wait to see how the hippie-dippies mix with the Alaskan bushmen!

I'm a little over 1/2 way through and I think I'm losing my taste for Ms. Rice's brand of fantasy. I have absolutely no tolerance for her long discourse on the nature of what she calls the human soul. And she has no respect at all for the knowledge we do have of science and human behavior or of physics.

No surprises, so far. Mostly background on Mountbatten and Ghandi . Minimal mention of Jinnah, to this point.

Thoroughly enjoying this nice mix of history, legend, and love story.

Really enjoying this 19th century look at the Rockies, which I called home for a brief few months. Would that I could have met this Isabella Bird! And I do miss the climate and beauty of those mountains.

This is my big-fat-best seller read for the summer. Vampires and scientists and soldiers, so far. And bats. Lots of bats.

This is a loaner from a friend. I would not normally have chosen this to read.

Rereading this because I don't remember a thing about it. Not even sure I finished it, in the past. Engaging, after 18 pages.

I'd forgotten how good Boyle is. Great bunch of characters

I may never finish this book.

It's a history book, but a good one. Can't read nonstop cover to cover.

There's something about reading a novel written by a well educated young writer that makes me want to burn incense, pour tea, and curl up by a good fire while I'm reading it. After a slow literary start where the protagonist sounds more like a female than the male it's supposed to be, the plot is finally moving things along.

Stalled. Too many other good reads on my nightstand right now.

Thoroughly enjoying this! About halfway through.

Three chapters in and I'm thoroughly engaged.

Interesting cultural and geographic history in the past few pages; there is so much left unsaid and unexplored, I rather wish the author had written this as a narrative of personal discovery. Characters are still awkwardly drawn.

Really trying to like this book, but the characters are so thinly drawn and so, well, uninteresting, that I'm having a hard time. Seriously, though, I've already shouted at the female lead several times: "Change the damn tire yourself!" "Take food and water when you head out alone!" Obviously written by a man . . .

I'm not getting drawn into this one as in the other two of the series; not sure why. Possibly, it's because I lived through all of this and it lacks the depth of character that would make any of this interesting.

A bit of historic fantasy for summer fun reading. Enjoying all things Scots in this.

Bryson's humor makes this enjoyable; if I could walk in the woods with him, I would.

Starting over on this one, as it's been sitting on my bookshelf, unfinished, for years. So far, I find the humor engaging, hopefully, that's not because of the seriousness of the Strayed book I just finished.

I'm enjoying nearly every moment on the trail with Cheryl, and I'm sure this will end way too soon. . .