Status Updates From The Gold Bug Variations

You know, I just realized that this is reminding me in some ways of BLEAK HOUSE. The female narrator who understates herself, the jumps between first-person narration and third-person omniscient. That’s about all of the connection, I guess. I feel like I’m taking forever to read this book. Ugh. Almost at the halfway, though, that’s something.

I feel like this is taking me longer to read than I would like. It’s not for not liking it, though the stuff about genetics is kind of over my head. I’m just not reaching for it with every free moment like I have some of the others I’ve read. I’m eager to get through it, though, because I’ve got like six more books lined up after this one.

The jumping through three different time periods is interesting and I think I’m following overall but I must say the idea of a librarian as a proto-search engine is so outside of my experience here in the 21st century that it feels very odd to read about.

Eyes are getting heavy, otherwise I would have read a bit more tonight. Not sure what to think yet; there’s certainly beauty in song of the words and phrasing. Unclear what the story is about yet, though.

Putting this aside for now. The prose is pretty obnoxious.