Beth Bauman > Recent Status Updates

While the audiobook reader is wonderful, I would recommend reading the physical book, since I just discovered it is full of drawings and very cool text formatting!

It's definitely a slow start, but the commentary has started to become sly and sarcastic at times, which is fun. Like Dickens or Jane Austen or something. :) But VERY slow. And I have yet to meet a character I actually like?

It's definitely a slow start, but the commentary has started to become sly and sarcastic at times, which is fun. Like Dickens or Jane Austen or something. :) But VERY slow. And I have yet to meet a character I actually like?

Alright, this one is already better than the first book, thank goodness!

I'm 8 chapters in and feeling increasingly irritated. None of the decisions of our main character make ANY sense! She's selfish, cruel, and incredibly rude 100% of the time. I get that she's an orphan and trying to protect her sister, but she keeps doing things that both demonstrate the OPPOSITE of love for her sister, and don't help them survive at all. Thoroughly upsetting. Ugh.

I am in no way surprised this book is so good, but also, IT IS SO GOOD! There is enough comfort and hope for justice that the infuriating INjustice of the abuse pulls you in, rather than away. It's going to be ok in the end, I think. :)

That got dark, fast! But very good so far.

This is a WHOPPPER of a book. It's also... kind of weird so far? It doesn't read like any other biography or leadership book I've read. It contains a lot of professionally and aloofly phrased juicy "tea" (gossipy kind of information) about a bunch of upper-crust British folks from the 1940s. Everyone is posh and scared and elated and judgemental and romantically entangled: lots of passages from personal journals.

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The first third of the book enthralled me and I was really excited! Sadly, as soon as Psyche and Eros met, my expectations were smashed. They have NO chemistry, and both are stupid and infuriating.