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Ugh... what to say. Must ruminate. Keep expectations low.

I will finish this. I will.

Pretty sure I'll make it to the end, but for the love an editor!

Mr. Barbour is absolutely hilarious.

Actually no clue where in the book I am, somewhere like chapter 15 maybe or not. IDK, reading an ebook is not 'where in the story am I' friendly. This is a real page turner. Brutal games teens play and then some.

Benedict Arnold is a far more interesting person than I imagined.

Loved the preface; think this is going to be a winner.

Alright, never really thought about which I'd rather be stuck under: Stalin or Hitler--truly horrifying choice. And if you're not strong enough to hold them back which would you rather have?

This was fun. Review rumination in progress.

Adventure story masquerading as biography. Fun. Review rumination.

The princess has been saved!

Well, I've heard of most of these people but keeping track of who's who in this veritable tossed salad of Henrys, Edwards, and Johns is challenging.

"When Edward died, apart from the such of Aquitaine, all that remained of his French territories were five towns and the land around Calais known as the Pale."-- wondered where beyond the Pale came from.

Following the winds of mathematicians. This is dryly amusing, wry.

It was finally obvious that this guy was going to fuck our engagement straight into the ground no matter what I said or did. Getting engaged with my family there was like trying to do water ballet in a tank full of piranhas.

Watching someone fall in love is like watching someone eat a really big, sloppy submarine sandwich. The more they're enjoying their sandwich, the less enjoyable it is to watch them eat it.

Lay of Gugemar: This is the first time I recall a male Sleeping Beauty motif.

I have no idea how I am going to review this, so I'll read a Physics Today article instead about Interwar Reconciliation attempts, in hopes that will help me formulate a cogent review.

FWIW: Loved it.

Schwarzschild deduced that any object could generate a singularity if its matter were compressed into a sufficiently restricted space: for the sun, three kilometeres, for the earth, eight millimetres, and 0.0000000000000000000000001 centimetres for the mass of an average human body.

Ohhh, to be tortured by the 'what have I done' or 'what have I seen' or what have I realized'.

Well, that ended . . . and now I have figure out how to explain why I ended up not liking this :/

This is fun; but, I love maps so I don't know if others will be as entertained.

Hmm...the writing is good, but between the spinning wheel of point of view and social media metaverse, the first which makes me nauseous and the second is repellent, not sure if I'm invested in finishing it.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

--Wilde is so funny and charming to read

Well, I'll have to collect myself. True to VanderMeer form.

There's something to be said for starting a VanderMeer book when you're falling asleep and already drifting out of rationality.