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Pretty dense & academic, but I’m following along: It’s about cities.

Kinda got a whiff of what to expect from this after reading the Intro. Not looking forward b/c it’s to be predictable. Lotta big chunky academic words that concatenate to fill sentences, all basically -isms about rich getting richer & poor getting poorer. Kinda disappointed that it’s already politically gone after Trump and brought up Covid blabber. Back when infected meant deadly for CNN, NBC & Big Pharma

Well the story with Luce was best, and now I see how it turned into a novel

Not loving it, too uneventful, but hoping some latter stories will appeal more to me

Stories are kinda boring & flat. Uneventful, more ponderous & slow-moving, but for short stories, slow-moving is pointless. Her stories make you wanna get into them but they’re uneventful and need like, more time, more pages, like, finish the thought.

did not know that there weren't any honeybees in N. America until Europeans brought them over

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