Timothy Patrick Boyer’s Reviews > Tom's Crossing > Status Update

Might take a break and get a Christmas read or two in. Might just power through. ::shrugs::

This book is infinite. Add on illness and together they form a reading slump as brutal as the terrain through which our heroes are so bravely trekking. If I were even just a little less stubborn, I probably would have DNF’d this a couple weeks ago. But I’m stubborn as a mule briefly named Effy and so helplessly hooked. So, yeah… See you in 40 years or so.

Slow and steady wins the race. I have no clue how I still have ~700 pages left. I feel like I’ve never not been reading this book. I don’t mean that in a bad way, but I definitely mean it.

Finally reached the end of Part One.

A beautiful but extremely dense and slow-going reading experience. And there’s no chance I’m finishing this before it’s due back at the library. So now I need to decide if I buy it or take a break as I wait for my next hold to come in. It’s not something I’d likely ever revisit, so I’m leaning towards the latter. But losing the little momentum I have might ruin the overall reading experience. ::shrugs::

I likely won’t finish it until I’m well into my 70s but damn I’m hooked.

The prose is beautiful and the atmosphere haunting and I damn-near immediately felt a strong connection to these characters, but I’m still thinking of DNF’ing it because it’s 1,232 pages and there’s pretty no chance in hell that I can finish it in the two weeks I have before it’s due back at the library. What was I thinking??