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Recommended my Ann Kansfield

An enjoyable page-turner, just as I remember!

The German chapter is so excellent!

7. Fall line: ok but but very interesting
8. Brief history: skipped
9. Migration: good.

4. Dictionary excerpts: not for me. Skipped.
5. Moksha: just so-so. But not bad.
6. Children of the new world: good

3. Heartland - ok

1. Yang - good
2. Cartographers - good

More notes: narrator doesn't distinguish between characters. Too preachy and repetitive. Her lack of knowledge in each life continues to be unbelievable.

About 2 hours into this 9.25-hour book and I'm not impressed. It's got very little in it about Hawaii (i.e. except for one big-picture fact which has very little impact on the page-to-page experience of the story, it could be anywhere in America) and we're spending an awful lot of time with people in relationships that I don't want to spend time with. Not sure if I'll continue with this book.

Kind of pointless so far.

Read a few chapters, put it aside, due back at the library. Maybe another try later

The characters are not very interesting and the story is predictable and mostly bland.

So far, this book is slow and boring. I have no reason to care about the character(s) and no one is doing anything particularly interesting. But I plan to stick with it, just in case it gets better.

We kind of abandoned this book for a few months, but are now making our way slowly through it again.

I'm not in love with this book so far. The storytelling style is a bit plastic and almost fairy-tale-like in some ways, which I'm not completely into. But I'll stick with it a while longer.

I'm mostly enjoying this, but I also think it's too long. There are sections/parts of the story that take at least twice as long as they should.

This book is not great. In its non-greatness, it reminds me a little bit of the Da Vinci Code - scenes that are very dramatic and exciting interspersed with badly-written intellectual idea-exploring, a plot that barely holds together, 2-dimensional characters. I'm taking a break from this book to read something better, but may return to it because I'm stubborn.

Great so far.

This book is very different from what I expected. The writing is simplistic and the characters are barely even 2-dimensional. Also, I didn't realize it was categorized as "Romance," which is a category I thought I didn't like, and now I am even more confident that I don't like. I may keep listening to it anyway when I need to fall asleep.