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Man, this is brutal.

This better not awaken something in me.

It took new a few tries to get into it, but now I’m enjoying the unfolding mystery.

I loved Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel, but held off on this one because the premise didn’t sound interesting. Anyway, I’m loving it.

I'm loving this book.

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Reading this again, I’m again stunned how far ahead of its time this was. The biting wit, cynical attitude and in your face feminism feels like it could be right at home on the internet today. On one hand, I can’t believe it was made in 1982, on the other hand, I can’t believe they ever stopped making it.

Wonderful stories about food and family lovingly written. A very special book, but make sure you have food around to eat because you will get hungry while reading.

I haven’t been able to put this down. Babel has many of the best elements of Harry Potter: outsiders attending an elite magic school, making friends. But instead of racism and misogyny discussed metaphorically, it is addressed head on interwoven with real world history. The heaviness is offset by genuine love of learning about language, delicious descriptions of food, and navigating college.

I don’t really know what’s going on and I’m not sure I care about any of the characters enough to make it through this one, but we’ll see!

I can tell I’m going to enjoy this because I’m a sucker for historians getting meta and explaining how we know something and not just what we know.