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This book is goooooood. So good I'm having to take my time.

I think I feel like I did with David Copperfield.. It's really good, and I care for the characters. Lots of humour and sadness. But I'm just not that into it.

Geez Louise this is taking forever. I like it, so I'll keep reading, but it's slow going.

I'm enjoying this so far. Starting in tween years, our narrator feels like an awkward adolescent observing adults doing and saying things she doesn't quite understand.
Now she's off to study at Oxford, so wondering if she becomes more world wise

Onto the third book, but only after skipping 40 pages of diary entries about his time in a Nazi interment camp in France tacked onto the end of the second book.

Will be interesting to see how it's held up. I remember being really impressed when I first read it. Has reading more urbanism articles jaded me?

This book is so tedious, I can only read a couple pages at a time. I just can't handle the morality being so heavy handed.

These pieces are wonderful. I don't know that I've read journalism from previous decades before, but I'm loving the first two biographies/interviews.

Loved the concept, loved the back and forth nature of the chronology, the clues dropped along the way (why he runs, etc). I thought the main characters were fleshed out and real, but most of the supporting characters were a bit one dimensional... Her family especially bugged me. Oh, and the weird black servant thing in Michigan in the 80s and 90s. Is that a thing?!

Really enjoyed it. I actually retained information from the book and have summarised some of the studies to friends, usually leading to an interesting discussion.
I'd finely recommend.

A book that gives you a chance to step into the lives of its narrator, as the product of a time of arranged marriage for corporate success, as an elderly woman, and throws in a sci-fi story as well.

Arthur Conan Doyle certainly liked having arrogant unlikable characters. I wonder how contemporary readers felt about them. Was arrogance meant to generate respect? Or prove intelligence?
Anyway, the book was ok, but not amazing. Maybe I'm just not the adventure story type...

Honestly don't know if I can be bothered to finish it. Spoiler alert: they finished the railway. Maybe the Mormons will make it more interesting.

Just picked this back up after months. "...it would be difficult to imagine anyone working more hours or harder than Reed [construction superintendent]". Stephen Ambrose seems not to understand the physical in physical labour, and spends relatively little time talking about the men who actually built the railroad.

Chapter 13 and I can't stand 90% of the characters. I like the dog, though. And Frank seems lovely. I wish 'the heroine' would read some books or go travelling or do something of interest. Start a business, perhaps?

"George Washington could travel no faster than Julius Caesar". Steam power really did transform the world.

"George Washington could travel no faster than Julius Caesar". Steam power really did transform the world.

Loving this. Might actually consider going to the Fforde Convention...

Really enjoying this collection. Some are better written than others, but all are such a different style than I'm used to. Definitely recommend.

Really enjoying this collection. Some are better written than others, but all are such a different style than I'm used to. Definitely recommend.