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Bleh to DNF or not to DNF. As far as I’ve made it in the book, these two have just been awkwardly comfortable with each other not really thinking about romance. For Decades! Other serious relationships have not been discussed so I just assume they’re non-existent. How are they here at 40? This author writes older romances, but this trope is a stretch here.

Enjoying the audiobook while building my Lego! But I’m also reminded why best friends is not my favorite trope. How did these people make it decades without ever considering their feelings for each other in a romantic way?

Finally, with about 90 pages to go, this book started to hold my interest.

Lots of suspects. Lots of train times. Lots of towns. Lots of policemen. Lots of bikes. It’s tedious and a bit much to try to keep track of. Oh, and lots of Scottish dialect which at times is difficult to manage. Because it’s Dorothy L. Sayers I’m going to stick it out..

Miss Clack was a real treat 😂

For the past few volumes I’ve had certain Thoughts. So it was quite the delight to see certain events of May Day in St. Crispian’s unfold…

It’s getting tedious and tiresome when most of the characters are quoting literature and poetry in regular conversation. Most people do not do this. It’s also becoming a little much when she mentions a word or thought or object in one scene and then it’s mentioned immediately in the next scene by different characters. It’s cool when it happens every once in a while. Repetitive when done in every chapter.

“The smartphone is causing a social reversal: the desire to be alone in public and never alone in seclusion. We can be shielded in public and surrounded in isolation, meaning we can escape the awkwardness of human interaction on the street and the boredom of solitude in our homes. Or so we think.”

“Digital technology must not fill up all the silent gaps of life.”

The author quoting his wife: “Compulsive social-media habits are a bad trade: your present moment in exchange for an endless series of someone else’s past moments.” 👏

“This is why we need the Bible. Our natural intuition can only give us a God like us.”

“The minimum bar to be enfolded into the embrace of Jesus is simply: open yourself up to him. It is all he needs. Indeed, it is the only thing he works with… Your very burden is what qualifies you to come. No payment is required; he says, ‘I will give you rest.’ His rest is gift, not transaction.”