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A fragmented style of narrative that doesn’t offer much real insight into her life other than her movements. There’s some references to her shyness but it’s not the immersive historical fiction I enjoy the most.

Lots of characters to keep track of, but the teenage boy dialogue and pranks are entertaining.

starting get really funny.

A great writer with a terrible story to tell. From the beginning this expedition was ill-conceived and left to incompetents to plan. It’s hard to enjoy the story because so much of it is ludicrous. And so far, TR shows his weaknesses, namely being restless and reckless. It’s like he was running from something all his life. Now that they are nearly at the mouth of the River of doubt, the real horror begins.

Not quite sure whether I liked this book. Until I came to this passage.

"But then a peculiar thing happened. I became extraordinarily affected by the summer afternoons in the laboratory. The august sunlight came streaming in the great dusty fanlights and lay in yellow bars across the room. The old building ticked and creaked in the heat. Outside we could hear the cries of summer students playing touch football."

Skipped the ghetto trash book.

Reading a slow burn of the incompetent generals (Scott being the first) leading the Union army is agonizing, knowing it’s not going to get better until McClellan is gone for good. Makes me appreciate Grant and Sherman much more for their abilities. How many lives were lost due to the pride and arrogance of men like McClellan? Too many to count.

I knew in the first few pages that I was in the hands of a master storyteller. DKG begins with a well-rounded view of all the candidates for the Republican nomination in 1860.