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There’s a lot of anecdotes that don’t fit into the larger themes of the book, and Sarah gets a little side tracked, but I feel like I’m watching a train wreck happening and can’t look away while reading about Facebook being built 🫩

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this is the most unexpected literary crossover…

Brad, you’ve turned history into a reality show and I’m so here for it 🫡

This is sooo good

This book is as heavy as a brick, and just as thick, too. Regret bringing this in my carry on luggage but don’t regret reading it so far 😗✌🏼

I need to take a break from books that can double as a brick especially when I’m tired

When Barnes & Noble is the one making the bold moves and Strand is out here embarrassing itself… well, welcome to the weirdest literary timeline. So far I’m coming away with a massive headache and unease looking at all my Strand merch, stickers, and bookmarks. Yikes.

“When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.” - Roger Mifflin.

This is so incredibly fascinating to recognize names of publishing houses, but read about the people behind those mega-names today. For all, it's an unyielding love of literature and books that drove them and their publishing houses to bring to the world overlooked gems.

Part murder thriller, part time travel, and fully entertaining!

When ur wife in the 1800’s tells u “Compromises based on the idea that the preservation of the Union is more important than the Liberty of nearly 4,000,000 human beings cannot be right—the alternation of the Constitution to perpetuate slavery – giving half of the Frontier of a free country to the curse of Slavery – these compromises cannot be approved by God or supported by good men.” yeah ur done son

Eh.

“When men come under the influence of fanaticism, there is no telling where their impulses or passions may drive them.” -Alexander H. Stephens, to Lincoln.

Well this is darker than what I was promised…

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Finley’s writing is choppy, faltering, and verbose. I know this is a book about a different medium of art but part of art is also describing it in a way that conveys thoughts and ideas effectively and so far I see nothing of the sort. The linguist in me is appalled, and we only just began the book. 😒

Brb, buying the physical copy of the whole series

Both fascinated by the building and architecture commentary, and depressed by 12th century standards of living.

Brb omw to buy the physical copy

“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn’t matter; painting was the stuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, lies in the expression it gives to the artist. Rembrandt fulfilled what he knew to be his life purpose; that justified him.”

This is such a strange journey so far