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This book is really good so far but I've been going through it slowly because I'm in the biggest reading slump of my life. I've accepted it.

I did not finish anything this month but I have library holds coming in that I need to get to... so here is to hoping June is a better reading month.

A few months ago I read 70-ish pages of this book but I put it down and forgot to pick it back up.

Now, I'm restarting it and I hope that this pulls me out of my reading slump. I trust in this book to help me!!

"The sky reached into the past and into obscurity, streaked with strips of cloud like marks left by a tired finger. The light leaking between the clouds was touched with purples, gentle reds and heavy blues. If you looked up far enough, you could see the wind blowing. It almost felt as if we could touch this layer wrapped around the world, if we just stuck out our hands."

I keep saying one more chapter and then I’ll go to bed but I really have to put a stop to it because it’s near 1am and I cannot be up this late.

This book is stressing me out, it’s got me fearing for everybody. I feel like I just ran a marathon and all I did was read like 80 pages.

I am actually really enjoying this and think that Lesh has great ideas.

enjoying this one so far

Rochester is definitely… an odd one (so far)

Very fascinating details in this book but again something about the tone in the writing is bothering me.

slowly but surely making my way through this book

really enjoying the information in this but the flippant tone (in the writing) has gotten old...

Yeah... I am dnf-ing this.

ya....this is just not good (for me personally) maybe I need to DNF.....but I only have 30ish% left....idk

I'm updating this too much, but it has gotten better!

Okay....y'all this is soooo corny. I'm trying so hard to enjoy this but it isn't working.

I’m listening to the audiobook because Bourdain narrates it himself and I am so glad I went this route.

Oh yeah this book is fascinating and very well written in an accessible way (at least so far)!!
Also, as a person from Texas, who had to take Texas history in seventh grade, and has been to the Alamo multiple times…I am learning a lot!!

I definitely did not expect this to start off with a quote from John Steinbeck NOR did I expect the story of Ozzy Osbourne peeing on the Cenotaph (monument with the names of those killed) right next to the Alamo. I might just have to buy a physical copy of this book because I think it is going to be a wild ride.

so far this has not been good…im so close to DNFing.

if I am right and I’ve already solved it, I’m going to be upset haha