Jennifer Nelson > Recent Status Updates

Struggling here...Not a fan of short, choppy sentences unless it's James Ellroy.

Having a hard time getting into this, but I'm not giving up yet.

Just about to read what was apparently a great speech...but it's in French, with no translation. This is a pet peeve. It's like the author/book is laughing at me for being such a hideous moron that I don't even speak French.

I totally forgot how much this comic makes me laugh. Trying to go a bit slowly so it lasts for longer than the other volumes did.

I am completely ignoring every other book I'm currently reading, because I can't put this down.

Yeah...not very far into this and it's already on the list of most misogynistic books I've ever read.

As is usual with this series, I can't put it down, but it's bittersweet, as I know that after this is the last book. I want to read, but I don't want to finish.

Relevant 85 years later.

I'm 99% certain I'd be enjoying this a whole lot more if it was actually about Lucky Luciano. I would estimate about 15% has been devoted to the "subject" of the book so far.

Well, it's entertaining, but I might get a few cavities before I finish. The author is going to ridiculous lengths to assure us, repeatedly, what a great, upstanding fellow Lansky was. It's like his defense lawyer wrote it. Apparently only Luciano was involved with drugs or prostitution, as these were deeply offensive to Saint Lansky.

Whenever I'm reading Pete Hamill I can't bear to stop, but at the same time I hate the thought that the book will actually end and I'll be dragged back out of a childhood that gets further away each year, and into real life. How can something be so wonderful and so exquisitely depressing at the same time. Maybe it's just my lifelong nostalgia problem.

Having a lot of trouble getting into this. I really thought I'd like this much better than I am so far...

Finding this slow going (obviously), which I didn't expect, but I'm damn well going to finish it.

I will finish this only because I'm fairly close to the end. I think that says everything you need to know.

Having a difficult time focusing on the actual haunting, as I'm finding the authors jerk of a husband so distracting.

Just beginning, but only now realized that this book is listed above with the word museum spelled MUSUEM...oh, well...

I cannot stop reading this. I'm neglecting my other books.

Putting this back on the to read shelf for now...

"The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth."

I'm not sure why I read books about the Tudors...I find each and every one of them repugnant.

More historical inaccuracies. "Henry VIII's grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, had been thirteen when she gave birth, shortly after her fourteen - year-old husband's death." Edmund Tudor was 26, not 14. And if her first marriage is being referenced, he was no longer her husband.

Page 32...more inaccuracy. Says that Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy was a brother of Charles VI of France.

Who proof-read this?! Only on page 6, and the beginning of the hundred years war is being explained as Edward II claiming the French crown through his mother, Isabella. No, that would be Edward III, the son of Isabella and Edward II. It's a history book, get it right!

I'm enjoying this book so far, though I'm not pleased with its lack of a bibliography and photos.

I love the fact that the insults and curses in this book could are still being used today.

He told his inner circle, "We need the policy of 'keep people stupid.' "

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, like Homer, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can't help crying.

This one will take a bit, but it's worth it.