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Brutal bit at the end of this chapter, with the activist's pledge items being mostly things that weren't relevant to the people like Dellarobia he was confronting. Like "turn off your monitor when not in use (she has no computer) and "fly less" (when she has never flown). Sort of violates the "know your audience" idea.

The weather gets colder, threatening the monarchs, and Ovid tries to explain the warming of the planet in ways that might make sense to Dellarobia, not entirely successfully.

There was a page about Himmy Driftwood in the last 20 pages - I have the album with the picture from this book as its cover! Always enjoyed those songs as a kid, mostly still do, like Tennessee Stud that's also been covered by current Bluegrass star Billy Strings.

Many disheartening examples in the chapter on Vietnam of how textbooks try to avoid any possible controversies.

Somehow I'm reading here about the lies related to slavery while FB shows me lies from people about today's politics. Makes me wonder how a book like this one 100 years hence will deal with today's situations.

As Jon said, what if she'd had her glasses on when she tried to walk up the hill through the woods earlier?

Resuming where I left off when I had to return this to the library.

Down to just 11 roders left in la tour as they near the end of the multi-week race. Devastation from the war is evident everywhere they ride, and the declines in some of the towns even have changed the race route, like when a town no longer had space to house racers.