Barbara Scott

Stick with it

Revisado: 02-11-23

The book starts out in a way that had me worried I was headed into a love affair between a charwoman and a sea creature like that movie. I am glad it settled into an entirely different plot. I enjoyed the characters especially Marcellus who moved the story along in ingenious ways you wouldn’t expect of an octopus.

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Head spinning

Revisado: 10-23-22

Too many points of view introduced at the story’s convenience for me. Bits of background appear just before needed. An ever flexible timeline stretches from before WWl to the 21st. Century. An ending wraps everything and everyone in improbable but previously unknown relationships.

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A Palace Hidden—(in Brooklyn?)

Revisado: 08-22-22

I’m glad this sequel was created and put into my awareness in time for me to read just after finishing The Golem and the Jinni. I wasn’t ready to put aside these unique and fascinating characters. Now I’m content to let them go a bit until they experience enough to let me in on another part of their story.

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Science Based Story for the Science Dyslexic

Revisado: 08-03-22

Project Hail Mary had me from The beginning with the occupation of Grace, the disillusioned scientist. Becoming a science teacher of young teens is the perfect choice for our future reluctant astronaut. It contributes the necessary hope, optimism, and sense of humor that makes an intended suicide mission story readable. There is so much science in the plot but Grace assumes we know nothing as his students knew nothing and makes his necessary explanations palatable and informative. And Andy Weir comes back to allowing Grace to find his love again in the satisfying end.

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Salvation in the Story

Revisado: 07-16-22

The audio narration definitely lowered my enjoyment of the story. The feminine voices and variation of tone at punctuation used by the male reader was irritating. It is the first time I have had such a reaction with an Audible book. But the story was fine. Could have used more highwayman lore and less frail heroine, but it had enough action and complications to satisfy. Read it in print.

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At Least a Six

Revisado: 07-08-22

I give too many 5s; I realize that. There are reasons for them
I won’t discuss. That said Lessons in Chemistry deserves more. It made me laugh, cry, and think. It made me want to believe Elizabeth Zot was based on a real person. When I realized she was. On our selves, our mothers, our grandmothers. On any woman who was held back on achieving what she could have because of her sex. Thank you, Bonnie Garmus. I want a second book from you.

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Stick With It

Revisado: 04-02-22

If Jane hadn’t come into his life, Edward Fairfax Rochester’s life would have been miserable. If you can hold out for that, you will get rewarded with some answered questions, some resolved presumptions a few surprise twists which are all possible within Charlotte Bronte’s framework. And that is, finally, my real disappointment, that her pen didn’t give us the whole of it

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Narration Outshines Story

Revisado: 03-20-22

What was the point? In a story filled with violence, heartless sex, and extreme lack of hope, only grim, black humor releases the chore of enduring to the end. I was troubled by the disjointed chronology of the plot. Characters are not given a background until after we have formed judgement

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Thorough Recounting but Ultimately Confusing

Revisado: 06-22-21

Somewhat tedious as everyone involved gets a tangential birth to death biography detracting the focus from the issues. I wanted a summary of key decisions in the end. I had an audible version. I felt I missed annotations that could have clarified some of the confusion and maybe were present in the physical version.

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Twisty Gothic

Revisado: 12-02-19

A slow building story filled with gothic like dying wives who linger as ghosts while their mourning but none too faithful widowers endure wistful hauntings No one lives without regret. Everyone seeks revenge takes on assumed names and tells stories that could possibly be true. You never know until the end.

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