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What a strange and wonderful voice the narrator has I thought to myself as I sat in the wing chair.

My mom has been recommending this book aggressively so here we are.

My main comment so far is that even though I’m pretty sure this is going to be about the dangers of AI, I am very, very uncomfortable with the way the narrator talks about his son’s body.

I hope this doesn’t become a thing and is just an unfortunate quirk because the son’s “strapping” and “glistening body of a God” matters later.

Clever. Well written. Unsettling.

I like that the author doesn’t think we’re dumb. She doesn’t try to explain her references. She trusts us to know things.

I will definitely read more by Olga Tokarczuk.

Is it ironic that I am finding this book incredibly stressful to read?

I’m on chapter 3.

Did he just bring THE BIBLE into scientific research? What is going on here?

One person cannot sing a round. One person cannot sing Mozart’s “Requiem”. This is not how the human voice works. Singing opera takes an incredible amount of work and training.

I will finish this book, but only because writers I respect recommended it.

I had to stop reading this. One cannot sing in a round by herself. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book, so I might revisit it later, but it just doesn’t make sense musically.