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Not really the best audiobook to listen to while at the lab late at night...but not too bad for my first contemporary true crime.

"But we had done that before--when I cloddishly recommended that she take my friend's Plato course, too opaque to register her invisible wink." Really? So basically if someone is young and cute and asks for academic advice, there is winking going on?

"I panicked...I told her that my class was full (when it actually wasn't), and then I put on my best professorial game face and shifted into the avuncular mode, recommending a course taught by my least-threatening male friend." What the hell, bro? I know this book isn't supposed to be about sexism and sex discrimination, but isn't that what you just did? Gave academic advice based on your pants situation?

A little cheesy but why not right now?

Oh my God this book is such a trite piece of sensationalistic trash. I think I'm more creeped out than anything else.

That moment when you figure out 80% of the ending because you read too much crime fiction and your friend confirms much of your current theory.

I never knew where my next revelation was coming from, but I new it was coming--some hairpin curve, some stray bit of romance or information that would turn my life around in a twinkling.

How confidently I had overlooked all this--rocks, bugs, rain. What else was I missing? I opened books like jars. Here between my hands, here between some book's front and back covers, whose corners poked dents in my palm, was another map to the neighborhood I had explored all my life, and fancied I knew, a map depicting hitherto invisible landmarks. After I learned to see those, I looked around for something else.

Let's see if I can actually get into it this time.

The essay on Frederick Douglass is on point. Well done, sir.