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My partner's favourite childhood book and I had never even heard of it! Going in pretty blind.

Just under half before I ran out if spotify audiobook credit. This is very affecting and very well done. Some of the editing of oral accounts is abrupt and choppy and I would have preferred letting more stories unfurl in totality rather than be cut into narrative beats. That is personal preference. It'll be a high 4 for me when I can finish it in 21 days but not a 5 for the reasons I have mentioned above

Just switching over to this for my animorphs reread as it better. I'm 6 books in with a very long while to go. When will I finish? Nobody knows.

I'm grateful I have my own copy of Fragments of Sappho (translated by my fave Anne Carson) for crossreferencing. Schwartz is experimenting, blending fact and fiction, using these fragments of these women to build a story. I'm not convinced it is all that successful but I will happily be proven wrong.

I am actively not doing things so that I can keep reading this, which is one of the more pleasant problems to have with a book.