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if I don't chomp down on this book like a pitbull and tear through to the end, I'll set it down and never pick it back up again. A fascinating roller coaster, but to read 500 pages of Twain concocting schemes to squander his wife's fortune makes me want to tear my hair out!

New words I've learned in the first 20 pages of this novel:

tergum - dorsal plate of a segment of an arthropod

exudate - oozing matter

phloem - complex tissue in the vascular system of plants

frass - debris or excrement produced by insects