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A unique premise, if not Harris's best work, it definitely has me wanting to see how things turn out.

This is as interested in a book on Rome as I've been for a while. Beard provides a 21st century perspective on Roman history as the Romans wrote it. What a metacognitive workout.

The first reading I've ever done about pragmatic linguistics. Mind=blown. #literallymakesnewsense

As she makes her way through Mongolia, where I am with her now, you would be forgiven for thinking that you were in the wildest parts of the Ancient American West... or Mars, for that matter.

Tonic for my soul.

The prologue itself is worth the read, as Holland does what you hope a writer of popular ancient history would in his opening pages-- he distills thousands of years of historiography into a narrative both compelling and fresh, for history, contrary to "popular" connotation, is ever-changing, is living. Otherwise, why read the same stories and characters over and over again, if at all?

What a trip! I'm snowed in in southern MN as I begin this quest, and it's the perfect place and time to be transported as it does-- in time, texture, look and language, seamlessly unified in this genre-busting text. It's good fun, old chap. Back your bag and come along.

I had forgotten what a masterful storyteller Mitchell is, and how deftly he can switch between narrators of different times and places. This seems to me to be the natural successor to the Cloud Atlas in a way that de Zoet did not.

Love Tana French, but I'm not sure that a mystery involving annoying high school girls is my idea of a good summer read. But I'll be patient for now.