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“The Drift”, 6/10. I don’t think the hatred of the new people is sharp enough
“Tedstimony”, 7/10. Plant people are interesting, but the voice is meh.

Rocky & Grave working together

Title story: 8/10, fills in a lot of gaps. Syncing.
“The Lake”, 9/10. Another hit. 8 of 15’s awakening.

“Under the eye of the big bird “, 9/10. I guess our narrator has powers! Very eerie

End of chalter 8. The aliens want to meet!

Narrator wakes up, grapples with machine.

Actually began reading this like two weeks ago. Do not really care for Ramit Sethi's bro tone tbh.

“Keepsakes” — the fragment of bone 8/10
“Narcissi” — crazy syntax, 9.5/10
“Green Garden” — a troubling love story, Women>Men. 9/10

The endgame. A fantastic riff on what comic books mean to Joe Kavalier (and, by extension, Chabon). Buying Empire Records?

World War II, Antarctica.

Joe knocks downCarlEbbeling. The bomb scare. Anapol exploiting K&C. The Workd’s Fair? This novelflows beautifully.

Geryon has met Herakles. Pulling away from his mother :(

Like honeyis the sleepof the just. Molestation :(

First chapter. Little Geryonon the way to school. Abandoned by his brother. Ode to “sober and uncanny” stones.

Juat the introductions and appendices. Is Stesichoros real? What do I make of these fragments?

Done!

Tolstoy really hates the Emperor Nicholas I

Hadji Murat’s life story. Loris-Meltskov surveys the murids. Gamzalov’s hatred.

The action shifts to Russia. Vorontsov’s father. Praise of Hadji Murat

End of Part II, where Sam and Joe stick to their guns about the Hitler punch cover. "You tell me." Nevertheless, you get the sense they're getting fleeced financially

Chapters I-V. Hadji Murat has defected. The tension is so high. Crazy how deftly Tolstoy, in the process of lingering to flesh out background characters, almost seems to accidentally advance the narrative paragraph by paragraph without drawing attention toit. Loving this so far.

First appearance of Rosa Saks. Magnificent tableau of Joe Kavalier on the fire escape.

Finished!

End of section 1

Deep into first section. Bayesian theory.

“On glory,” 6.5/10. Basically, be good even when nobody is watching and for goodness’s sake, not because people will be impressed.

Fantastic digression on the primordial soup of pre-Action Comics comic books.