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Abandoned

Losing interest in the plot, but still enjoying the setting

Abandoned

Recommended by the clerks at Bank Street Bookstore, who say middle grades kids love this book, but it's not my cup of tea. I'm realizing I dislike the creepiness of circus genre overall, and the contrived-ness of this book in particular.

meh

Trying to finish this because it was highly recommended by the clerks at Bank Street Bookstore, but I just...can't. Turns out I hate all circuses, even (especially?) magic ones.

abandoned. What's the point of reading about such unhappy and unlikeable people?

One day I will finish this book, and somehow remember what it says. Today is not that day.

A feast of submarine interiors and marine life that I've been slowly nibbling on for over a year

Comfort reading

So very bleak

Never knew that a book about court cases could be a page-turner, but this one is!

Scary, inspiring, eye-opening

abandoned

So dark, this book!

As a kid, I was as nerve-wracked as Justin. He would have made it easier to laugh about.

Enjoying Kincaid's adventures at the Chelsea flower show, especially after watching a Helen Mirren movie that gives a good feel for Britain's garden-mania (it's about a prisoner whose thumb was so green he and his friends were able to enter a garden in England's annual competition)