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PAUSED at 50% on second reading... A Libby book - The Whisper Man - became available!

dnf - very frustrating. Couldn't keep track of the characters or what information they had shared about their pasts.

The thing to remember is this is a book about buying books and the history of buying books. It has a bias towards brick and mortal Bookshops.
It has a bias against libraries and online booksellers particularly Amazon. It is also not a fan of books sold in stores like Target, Walmart, and Macy's.

Remember:
It is not a book about reading.

Dnf

Aweful audio! Sometimes she slips into an Australian accent by mistake because it is never explained or even acknowledged. 🤦🏼‍♀️

PAUSE

DNF - boring...

DNF

paused (ran out of Spotify hours!)
Part Two: Prentice (re-start on Charlie... next month!)

Fin: The Red Headed League
Fin: The Woman

Fini A Study in Scarlet
Fini The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

A Study in Scarlet

STOP/DNF
page: 218
Chapter: 18 'First "Ambassadress" to the Soviet Union'

I just read the 'Modern Text' about half way through. I just wanted to read the story and not try to piece together the meanings of the cryptic Shakespeare writing... sue me.

Dnf

Someone on Reddit stopped at this exact place too. It does that thing with Thriller books where it gets too complicated while also getting unbelievable to the point of feeling like a fiction of a fiction - like historical fiction is to history but a fiction thriller to a fiction - like there is already a normal original fiction book and then this is the fiction thriller of that book. It's just dumb. p306

Dnf Stop

Dnf consisting and not well written.

Chapter 8

Decided not to finish because The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by
Allison Pataki so closely they might as well be the same book with the differentiation of nonfiction and fiction! The pictures were nice though.

DNF one hour left audio

Nope. Listed it to sell.

07 03 2025

Dnf

Part IV
W. E. B. Du Bois