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Erin
is 5% done
Day 16: Noticing that most of the time, people talk about this book structurally: 1000 pages, eight sentences. So? There's a 181 page, too-many-sentences book that I disliked so much that I didn't finish it. So?
The fact is that ebook reading = I read for a little while and then stop and then do that again, and 5% tells me I have 100 or so times of doing it until the narrator vanishes into the horizon.
Onward, E
— Sep 10, 2019 07:43PM
The fact is that ebook reading = I read for a little while and then stop and then do that again, and 5% tells me I have 100 or so times of doing it until the narrator vanishes into the horizon.
Onward, E
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Erin
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Hi there, Ducks:
Last week I discovered that I really enjoy reading you on air flights. Something about your cadence and my attention span in a cramped aluminum tube just really comes together. Kind of a shame I don't know when I'll next be in that situation, but we'll carry on, you and me.
Affectionately,
E
— Mar 11, 2020 10:11AM
Last week I discovered that I really enjoy reading you on air flights. Something about your cadence and my attention span in a cramped aluminum tube just really comes together. Kind of a shame I don't know when I'll next be in that situation, but we'll carry on, you and me.
Affectionately,
E
Erin
is 6% done
Dear Ducks:
I saw you in paperback form the other day and while you're pretty big, you're not so big that you deserve all of that BIG commentary.
I have a feeling we'll get together again very soon -- the gravitational reader pull for me is going in your general direction.
Affectionately,
E
— Feb 19, 2020 08:13AM
I saw you in paperback form the other day and while you're pretty big, you're not so big that you deserve all of that BIG commentary.
I have a feeling we'll get together again very soon -- the gravitational reader pull for me is going in your general direction.
Affectionately,
E
Erin
is 5% done
Hello again, Ducks:
If I were the kind of person who liked to set resolutions and/or goals, finishing you would be a very obvious one. But I'm not, so here we are.
Onward in 2020,
E
— Dec 31, 2019 07:57AM
If I were the kind of person who liked to set resolutions and/or goals, finishing you would be a very obvious one. But I'm not, so here we are.
Onward in 2020,
E
Erin
is 5% done
Day 54 or so:
I’ve missed you, Ducks. For what it’s worth, I’ve only cheated with you on partial audiobooks because I’ve been in the hospital and that’s what happens there. But I’ve thought of you often, because your protagonist has finished a bout with illness/treatment and I suspect when I return I’ll be highlighting hints toward that. Until that hopefully soon day and with affection, E.
— Oct 24, 2019 11:04AM
I’ve missed you, Ducks. For what it’s worth, I’ve only cheated with you on partial audiobooks because I’ve been in the hospital and that’s what happens there. But I’ve thought of you often, because your protagonist has finished a bout with illness/treatment and I suspect when I return I’ll be highlighting hints toward that. Until that hopefully soon day and with affection, E.
Erin
is 5% done
Day 24: Obligations/misadventures interfere with reading time. So this is more to say that WaPo’s interview with Ellmann, especially after a review that focused on how big the physical book is (!!), pleased me very much.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entert...
— Sep 18, 2019 04:38PM
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Erin
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Day 9: Still into letting this novel run how I read it. Underlines from other readers starting to show in ebook, found a new one when I looked back. When I look things up (another ebook format perk) I’m reminded that growing up in western NYS is not growing up Midwestern. Very glad I reread all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books last year and can therefore resist the urge to do it now. Til next time, E.
— Sep 03, 2019 07:44PM
Erin
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Ongoing notes:
8/26/19: This is going to be in my Currently Reading for a long time. Got about 4% in, then started again over the weekend. I want to read this out loud. SO MANY FEELS.
— Aug 26, 2019 07:32PM
8/26/19: This is going to be in my Currently Reading for a long time. Got about 4% in, then started again over the weekend. I want to read this out loud. SO MANY FEELS.
