Kim S’s Reviews > Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York > Status Update
Kim S
is 49% done
This book is still really riveting, but the typos and wording errors are starting to grate on my nerves a little. A few examples: "Perhaps because he knew there was there no help to be had," and "there where 41 black men." VERY distracting, and could have been fixed with a copy edit!
— Apr 15, 2019 09:10PM
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Kim S
is 40% done
Case in point, from my last update - interjected editorial comment: "Hess had lobbied hard to keep his position, but Grace wanted change (just not too much change; he wasn’t progressive enough to appoint a woman)." Maybe it's just me, but I don't like reading nonfiction history through a modern lens. Nobody was "progressive" in the 1880s, so leave the 21st century opinions out of it, and just report facts.
— Apr 11, 2019 07:52PM
Kim S
is 34% done
Quite good so far, and enthralling; but a minor thing I could have done without is the writer's occasional editorializing and pithy commentary and/or judgmental references to modern times... this is supposed to be nonfiction (supposedly presented without overt author judgment or opinion), not an op-ed column.
— Apr 11, 2019 07:03PM
