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It’s taken me over a decade, but I’m finally close to finished! Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten an engineering degree since then, but I appreciate the detailed descriptions of the castaways’ projects better this time around.

I can see why the author has her own statue, may she rest in peace. She pulled no punches describing the horror of Nanking’s invasion, and rightly so. My grandfather was a WW2 veteran: my family has read books, watched documentaries, and discussed the war for decades because of that. But even I’ve never heard of this before, other than a passing reference on The Office. Everyone needs to know about this.

Keeps getting better the further you get from the hospital scenes.

While it randomly brings up the evils of slavery several times, this has been a surprisingly good book so far. A little bit like cliff notes mixed with a biography. I can tell the author really is passionate about the original story (which checks out, since he wrote “In the Heart of the Sea).