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This version of Gilgamesh was oddly difficult to find on GoodReads so figured I should mark it as currently reading . . . Not something I ordinarily do. My interest was sparked by recent novel I read, There Are Rivers in the Sky.

I've been reading this for months now -- an essay every week or so, it seems. Last one was about The Handmaid's Tale and especially interesting. Maybe in another few months I'll have a review for the book . . .

I'm at a good point to take a break from this after 3 weeks . . . I wasn't expecting the level of detail that is in this book.

My dad was in the Quartermaster corp of 3rd Infantry, WWII, and while he talked little about the war, I can understand a bit more of what he went through while reading this. I'll finish it eventually!

Not my usual fiction read but turned out to be very interesting.

Story of identical twins, Daphne and Laurel, who are very close all through childhood and their twenties, bonded through an extreme love of words that is encouraged by their father. I had trouble keeping the twins separate in my head but gradually their distinct personalities developed to a point that I could.

So far not feeling the same about this one as the first Olive Kitteridge. Jack is no Henry. I re-read several of the stories in the first Olive before starting this and definitely thought they were better.

Gave up around page 50 on the audiobook version