Tom Quinn’s Reviews > Mason & Dixon > Status Update

The Gigantick Rolling Cheese Wheel is memorable and funny, but it's worth noting that the laughs are sandwiched between two heavy sections focused on grieving a lost spouse and the foolishness/courage of Love in the face of Reason, when logic compels us to accept the impossibility of 'moving on'

Folks undecided on whether or not to read this one should know there's a whole chapter on the tree-felling contest of were-beaver vs. lumberjack.

Daily goal: 30 pages
Daily stretch goal: 55 pages

Have taken to using two bookmarks: one to mark my place and one to mark the place I hope to end up at, 55 pages ahead. Scale of 1 - 10, how dorky is it to feel a warm glow as the characters also split up to chart separate courses that meet up again later?

Now and then I come down with Hollywooditis and start picturing Gimli in place of Dixon, which means Legolas as Mason, and I'm not sure Orlando Bloom could pull it off.