At the end of chapter one, it dropped a sales pitch for a pricey “temperament” test.
A chapter or so later, it bThis book was not what I was expecting.
At the end of chapter one, it dropped a sales pitch for a pricey “temperament” test.
A chapter or so later, it became a man-bashing episode in which the author blamed men for most of the issues in a marriage, for not realizing women are emotional creatures and encouraging them when they’re throwing fits. Maybe I didn’t get far enough in (I DNFed at 30 percent) to see responsibility for a woman’s own emotions being put on herself too.
Sadly, one example had plenty of space in which to tackle both subjects (I’ve seen it done that way many times before), but the man was the only one on which the responsibility was placed.
Instead of encouraging women not to dump their high-strung emotions on their husbands as soon as they come in from a hard day’s work, it was said, basically, that men should deal with this verbal abuse and then encourage the wife and say she’s done such a great job today.
If she’s dumping on her husband instead of also nurturing him (as was stated to be in women’s nature), then has she really done a great job?
What happened to encouraging women to greet their husbands kindly, give them space to gear down from their own tough day, and then share about her own in a calmer, more pulled-together fashion? I’m an emotional woman myself, but in my thirty-seven years, I have learned that a woman can indeed conquer her emotions if she asks for God’s help and tries to implement the guidance He gives her. She is not solely dependent on a man to resolve this issue for her. In fact, she should be working with God on the issue so she doesn’t have to dump on her man and further complicate his day, which would build more strife in their relationship. I’m not saying things and emotions cannot ever be shared; a woman could read the room and see if her husband’s in a worn-out state or if he’s ready and willing to listen to her problems. Sharing one another’s days (in a calm fashion) is part of the communication that maintains a healthy relationship, but flying off the handle and expecting the man to simply deal with it and then praise you for it is dysfunctional at best.
I’ve definitely heard this example done better before than how it was presented in this book.
Hopefully there is some advice worth taking in this book. But I recommend thinking for yourself as you read it. Also, keep in mind your personality and that of your spouse; some advice and generalities might fit the two of you, while others might not. Use the discretion God has given you....more
The cover and premise were so cute, I had high hopes for this story. Unfortunately, there were gag-worthy physical-focused moments for the leading ladThe cover and premise were so cute, I had high hopes for this story. Unfortunately, there were gag-worthy physical-focused moments for the leading lady with two of the three men she reconnected with in the first two chapters. There was also a random “I mean” comment from the author (rather than the leading lady) in the narration, which jerked me from the storyline. I’m bummed I didn’t make it to the promised scavenger hunt.
The graphic design thread was shaping up to be a fun aspect of the story. I rather enjoyed Piper’s grandmother in a brief early scene. I also liked the name Piper. ...more
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This author was becoming a favorite, but this book changed that completely. I don’t appreciate sexual perversion being shown in a positive light that doesn’t clearly paint it as the evil stain of sin it truly is. I stopped reading the book because the leading lady didn’t seem to have any sort of problem with a guy’s son living with another man as a sexual partner, even though the Bible declares this as “contrary to sound doctrine” (1 Timothy 1:8-10) and “wicked” (Genesis 19:4-6). I have no idea if anyone in the story eventually came to see this behavior as the wicked sin it is, because I was too disheartened to keep reading to find out.
This was unfortunate because I was otherwise enjoying the story of a writer planning a trip to Italy while also supporting her grown daughter in her journey of attempting to climb out of debt and poor choices.
Content: crude sexual term, sexual perversion ...more
I struggled to get into this story, but I think it was more the too-thin, too-light font type than the story, as the font gave me headaches. The storyI struggled to get into this story, but I think it was more the too-thin, too-light font type than the story, as the font gave me headaches. The story was entertaining enough but felt slow in the first sixty-six pages. The set-up was what felt sluggish to me.
The premise of this one sounded good, but the delivery was lacking. I was highly disappointed in the bad language that was included, as that set a pooThe premise of this one sounded good, but the delivery was lacking. I was highly disappointed in the bad language that was included, as that set a poor example for the target audience of teenagers. My disappointment was doubled when I realized this was a Thomas Nelson book. That company used to be well known for clean Christian fiction stories that a reader could trust, that a reader could hand to their teenagers without worrying about the content they’d be reading. This book did not follow that trend. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first recent book that has broken my trust in the company.
I hope they re-raise their moral standards soon.
I stopped reading this book at 21 percent.
Content: expletives (English and Spanish), profanity (English and Spanish), underage drinking, alcohol...more
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I really wanted to like this book. The back-cover copy was FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
I really wanted to like this book. The back-cover copy was so intriguing, with a premise that sounded right up my alley. I didn’t understand how the cover was connected to the blurb, but I was willing to overlook that in order to see the story unfold.
Unfortunately, I only made it to the twenty-percent mark of this book. Within the first three or four chapters, there were five profanities. The fact that even one profane word was published by a Christian publisher is disappointing; to have five pop up in such a short amount of time was downright alarming.
The pace of the story was really slow to me. Granted, that could just be my personal taste. Still, the opening scene had immediately set an interesting tone and pace, but the next several seemed to slow things to a crawl and were less interesting. Of course, that could have been due to the fact that it sounded like the leading lady was willing to cheat on her absentee (due to military service) husband. That sort of “love triangle” subplot is not my cup of tea. Melodrama! (and not the good kind).
The leading lady’s accent and dialect were charming—until she claimed to be “a city girl born and bred.” Um, no. She sounded like a hillbilly, mountain woman, or country bumpkin, all of which made sense, considering she was living in the mountains of Arkansas, and had apparently spent lots of time there as a child (as one flashback early on told me). I don’t think city girls speak like this gal did, so I struggled with that. However, I was willing to deal with the inaccuracy to finish the story.
The final straw for me was the graphic violence and imagery that suddenly popped up in a flashback at the twenty-percent mark was enough to nauseate me and trigger my vertigo. I’m not normally super squeamish, I know my limits, and this surpassed it in about half a page of a particular flashback the leading man was having. That, in combination with the profanities and slow pace, made it impossible for me to continue reading this book.
Through that first twenty percent, I did not understand the cover any better than when I’d first seen it. Hopefully the rest of the book explains it better.
The highlights for me were little Rosie, who was an adorable girl getting to know her daddy for the first time; her kitty cat “Bailey baby,” who very much acted like a real kitten; and the budding father-daughter relationship between Sam and Rosie. I think their storyline would have been my favorite part had I been able to finish this story. It was shaping up to be something really special.
The premise of a soldier coming home and navigating PTSD while figuring out how to once again be the husband (and now, father) he ought to be was intriguing. I do wish I could have enjoyed this book to see how things turned out for Sam.
Content: profanity (excessive in first twenty percent), replacement expletives, drugs mentioned, marital affairs mentioned, claim that a little girl was “a gift from the god of war,” graphic war violence/imagery...more
I DNFed at page 98, because of an anti-Biblical, blasphemous statement on God’s gender: “But the Shakers pray not to Our Father, but the Father-MotherI DNFed at page 98, because of an anti-Biblical, blasphemous statement on God’s gender: “But the Shakers pray not to Our Father, but the Father-Mother God. It is always that—Father-Mother—never Father alone. They believe in a God that is male and female both.”
In Matthew 6:9, Jesus instructed us to pray to “Our Father in heaven.” That makes is clear God is only male.
Even besides that, there was something creepy and evil about the scenes at the Shaker camp. It was way too controlling and cult-like.
The one thing I enjoyed was the rich emotions Lydia experienced and shared with the reader.
I had hoped the book would get better from this opening line: “I’m begging you, please stop looking at naughtyI couldn’t get out of the third chapter.
I had hoped the book would get better from this opening line: “I’m begging you, please stop looking at naughty pictures in the library” as well as that event being equated to being “a rowdy fifteen-year-old boy.” I don’t find pornography to be any type of definition of “rowdy” or of a teenager. In fact, I find it quite sinful, and I’m unsure why it was included in a Christian book and tossed off as a “rowdy” teenager problem. Instead, this issue is a serious problem.
Sadly, the book did not improve within the first three chapters.
In fact, it got worse.
There were two blasphemies in the first three chapters. This, of course, was a humongous disappointment in a Christian fiction book.
First: “Luke found salvation in the passages of Byron, Keats, and Coleridge.”
True salvation is found only in one name: Jesus Christ.
“Jesus Christ the Nazarene … There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.” Acts 4:10-12 HCSB
Second: “Oh noble sun, cleanse my sorrows with the sweet kiss of morning dew.”
Only God Almighty can cleanse sorrows through the blood of Jesus Christ.
“… the blood of Jesus [God’s] Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 HCSB “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 HCSB
The leading man was a bully, demanding people just fall all over themselves to do his bidding. I’ve been told this attitude improves, but I didn’t see any signs of it in the early chapters. I’m hoping he did learn that people were worth treating with at least the minimum respect due every fellow human being.
Beyond that, there was parental bullying on at least two occasions. The first was to excess, while the second was a passing comment.
The leading man’s father bullied him because he wrote poetry. He went on and on for pages about this bullying, coming to this ridiculous finale: “Why don't you ask your mother to sew you a dress if you want to write poetry like a girl."
The story takes place in 1897, so it made sense to me that the kid would be inspired by and following in the footsteps of such poetry greats as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau (not to mention “Byron, Keats, and Coleridge” who were mentioned directly during one of these bullying scenes)—all of whom are men. Maybe the dude’s dad ought to read a book every now and then.
The other parental bullying was: “Gertrude’s parents warned her that girls who looked like a russet potato shouldn’t aspire to marriage and encouraged her love of music as a means of earning a living.”
The year, as I mentioned, was 1897. Average-looking women got married all the time then, as they do now, so I do not understand this mindset for her parents. It was impossible for me to fathom that a parent would call their child a “russet potato” and tell her she’s not worthy of finding a husband and raising children. That is her God-given right, if she so chose to accept it, as mentioned many times throughout the Bible, which has been a known Book since ancient times.
I truly hope the characters learned to be better and overcame such terrible past behavior, but I couldn’t continue reading to find out.
My favorite part of this book, through the third chapter, was that a library was so heavily featured. Typically, that is a favorite setting in fictional stories for me, so I fully expected to like this book. Unfortunately, it’s another book I couldn’t finish.
Content: parental bullying of children, pornographic pictures mentioned and tossed off as rowdiness, blasphemies ...more
I'm not a fan of books in which the leading lady accuses a perfect gentleman -- who was only concerned with seeing her home safely since there was a bI'm not a fan of books in which the leading lady accuses a perfect gentleman -- who was only concerned with seeing her home safely since there was a bandit afoot -- of being "domineering." Especially when she herself has been domineering and bossy since page one.
I was looking forward to this book, but I couldn’t get past 15 pages because there were no quotation marks for dialogue. That made it really hard to dI was looking forward to this book, but I couldn’t get past 15 pages because there were no quotation marks for dialogue. That made it really hard to decipher what was being said from what was narration, and this issue gave me a rather large headache.
FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
This book was pretty interesting and enjoyable through the FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
This book was pretty interesting and enjoyable through the first forty-eight percent. Then I got lost on what the goal was, because it kept changing. I didn’t mind the first couple of changes, as sometimes a character’s goal does adjust along the way. But the number of huge shifts in goals for each of the leads in the story seemed to grow by the chapter. I felt lost and frustrated by this, so I closed out the book at the halfway mark.
At one point, Sulley claimed to have a “healthy respect” for God, but in the very next sentence he called God the irreverent name of “Big Guy.”
I loved the little girl who helped out in the store/post office that Gainey worked at. She brought a ray of joy that dimmed only when circumstances demanded it. Even then, she was the highlight for me.
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The blurb and cover for this book originally caught my atteFTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
The blurb and cover for this book originally caught my attention. They sounded and looked, respectively, so intriguing to me. Had I known that Alma Pihl, the historical-era lead, was a real-life person, I would have known not to request this book. Reading about real-life leads is not my thing, as I do not typically enjoy fictionalized versions of real people’s stories. There are rare exceptions on occasion.
This was not such an occasion.
There were inaccuracies and inconsistencies throughout the first hundred pages (I DNFed at page 101). I also was not comfortable with the scenes that depicted the strain of Mr. Fabergé’s marriage. Those details, particularly the ones that shared how his wife and he felt about each other and their marriage, seemed completely fictionalized rather than based on facts gleaned from historical accounts. Perhaps I’m wrong, and I hope I am, but it made me uncomfortable enough to lose interest in Mr. Fabergé’s thread in the book.
I found it difficult to connect with the characters in the historical thread because there were too many history dumps. In particular, there were dumps about dead master craftsmen who had been replaced. This was unnecessary information that cluttered up the pages so that I couldn’t find a sense of the present action within the scene, as it was often interrupted to share more details about some person who would not play any role within the story as they were long gone already. At times, the history dumps were so dense and lengthy it felt like I was reading a history textbook rather than a novel.
While the Fabergé eggs were described in beautiful detail, I found the placement of these descriptions awkward and disruptive to the flow of the scenes.
It was also difficult for me to connect with any of the contemporary-era characters. The lead in the present-day scenes acted like a rebellious teenager rather than the twentysomething she was. It was unsettling that she used bad language, and especially right on the pages of a Christian fiction-labeled book. Her mom acted even less mature, holding on to hurts she’s had a lifetime to work through (but apparently didn’t). I understand that sort of thing, but I don’t understand still being on a teenage level in the way she spoke and acted toward the people around her. The dad was way too passive for a treasure hunter type of person. With the personality I saw on the pages, cancer and looming death notwithstanding, he didn’t seem the type to abandon his family in order to seek treasures.
It was difficult for me to keep track of all the leading ladies. There were three POV ladies and all of them had names that began and ended with A. I understand now that Alma Pihl and Augusta Fabergé were real-life women. Their names were pre-decided, then. But why did the fictional lead have to be named Ava? I don’t know how many times in 100 pages that I got confused between Alma and Ava because the names were too similar. There were also secondary characters mentioned whose names were Amalia and Albert. That’s a lot of A names to keep track of.
“Actually, I don’t think you owe him an apology, Mom.” Actually, she did. No matter how he had treated her in the past, her using verbal abuse against him was not okay. Verbal abuse is never okay. Yet, here it was given the easiest of excuses and then rubbed in his face that she knew she didn’t need to apologize for it. This behavior does not encourage healthy relationships, and it largely contributed to my lack of connection with these characters.
Inconsistencies and contradictions popped up on occasion. One in particular was quite shocking. A single photograph was described as detailed (being able to see “some flecks of black sprinkled” in a white beard), unclear (“wasn’t clear enough to make out his expression”), clear (a woman’s “soft smile turned up her lips”), and unclear again (the expression in the woman’s eyes was hard to make out). These contradictory descriptions were unsettling and made it difficult to imagine this photograph.
The first 100 pages had feminist overtones that prevented me from connecting well with the story. In the author’s note at the back of the book, it was said that Mr. Fabergé was “a master craftsman whose creativity and vision is [sic] almost unparalleled in history.” Yet, within the story, Alma’s two eggs were “thought to be the most innovative” of all of Fabergé’s eggs. Was Mr. Fabergé or Alma the greater designer? This book provided two different answers to that question. There was becoming a large focus on the fact that Mr. Fabergé “employed several women as master craftsmen,” but lists I found online only showed two or three female master craftsmen who worked in his shop. Two is a “couple”; three is a “few”; I don’t see “several” in any of the lists I found online. There were other niggling comments that were slid in that hinted at a feminist movement sort of thing, and that is not a favorite theme of mine to read about.
Certain things were over-emphasized to the point of ad nauseam. “Padawan” comes to mind, for one example. The first couple of times were cute and a great idea. Once it piled up to be a dozen or more times within about 20 pages, I was worn out on the subject.
I enjoyed the descriptions of the Fabergé eggs. I felt they were out of place at times, as they were often part of the history dumps, but they were very well described so that they were well seen in my imagination.
I’m sad to not be able to finish this book, because I was really wanting to spend some time virtually traveling to Russia and Finland and perhaps other countries as well through this story. I typically love stories that make the settings come alive so that I feel like I was actually there while reading. I don’t know if this book does that or not, as the contemporary thread still had not ventured to Europe by page 101 and the historical thread mostly took place in Mr. Fabergé’s shop or home through that same page.
The cover was beautiful, and I really liked that one of the Fabergé eggs was added near the bottom. That was a really nice detail.
FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
This book caught my eye because of the title and genre (WWIFTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
This book caught my eye because of the title and genre (WWII). The premise was intriguing too, so I thought the story would be right up my alley.
It was not.
Not-so-subtle feminism remarks were threaded throughout the early chapters, and those rubbed me the wrong way. Despite that, I continued reading, hoping for the best.
The leading lady stared in awe at the leading man every time she saw him through at least page 70. I wasn’t sure why she was struck so dumb by a handsome face. Had she never seen a man with good-looking features before? Despite that, I continued reading, hoping for the best.
On page 74, a male officer referred to a female officer as “sir.” According to the military research I have done over the years, this is simply not done. Male officers are referred to as “sir,” while female officers are referred to by “ma’am.” One of my sources even said, “Despite its use in many fictional works, [‘sir’] is not a term used for female superiors, who are addressed as ‘ma’am.’”
At that point, I looked ahead at the author’s note to see if this “mistake” was mentioned as having purposely been made as a part of research or something. It was not mentioned at all.
However, the author’s note did make it very clear that this story was “purely fictional,” including altering historical facts, such as changing who did the training of the SPARs, the fact that former WAVES turned SPARs were trained separately and in a completely different state than the rest of the SPARs (in the book, they were trained at the same facility in the same state), dates and ship names were “altered to fit the timeline and mood of the story,” including the dates of the Doolittle Raid and a newspaper column written by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Upon seeing how much history was altered to create this fictional story, my interest in said story was immediately terminated.
History has and will always mean something to me. It’s something to learn from and accurately teach to future generations so that we won’t repeat mistakes that have been made before us. Having history altered like the abovementioned ways irks me, and I cannot support such blatant disregard for facts of what really happened in the past.
I wish I had liked this story or been able to make it past page 74.
I liked that proper 1940s attire and hairstyle, as well as a flock of birds, were highlighted on the cover. The introduction to the leading lady was good, and I liked that she was on a journey to find where she could best use her talents in society. It was great to see that the leading man had some past regret to work at overcoming, as this was reflective of the human condition. If not for the altered history, I likely would have enjoyed his story.
FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
I have loved the majority of Mrs. White’s books. I fully exFTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book. These are my honest thoughts.
I have loved the majority of Mrs. White’s books. I fully expected to love this one.
Sadly, I did not.
The premise was wonderful. I was in the mood for a good mystery, and I thought this one sounded like it would fit the bill.
The mystery started with a bang, so I thought I was going to be in for a jam-packed novel, filled to the brim with clues and red herrings and all sorts of mischief for me to sort through in order to find out what truly happened to the missing character. I was ready for the adventure.
However, it promptly fizzled out for me when the brother set aside his concern for his missing sister and instead focused on his everyday business of continuing his long-held rivalry with the town headmaster, racing said headmaster in a weekly rowing competition, and romancing the leading lady, who he just met. What happened to his urgent concern for his sister’s well-being???
The tension leading up to Mabena’s return to her home island was superb. I thought for sure I was in for a good showdown once she finally made it back home, because the tension was a palpable promise of such a thing. However, there was no follow-through on that understood promise. In Mabena’s big return home, there was not an on-page reunion with her parents, so there was no showdown or blowup or anything else worthy of all the built-up angst.
The mystical, fantasy-type vibes I got in the first forty percent of this book were creepy. There was some “magic elbow” thing that I didn’t really understand, and I wasn’t sure if Mamm-wynn was supposed to be a prophetess, a mystic, or just some senile old lady who imagined relationships and weddings and honeymoons where there were none. These and a couple of other little threads give me the willies.
The pro-evolution, pro-Charles Darwin leanings in the leading lady were so disturbing to me. I was completely shocked to see this content strung throughout a Christian novel. It was even worse when the “sage” Mamm-wynn “confirmed” Libby’s connection between evolution and God’s name choices for a few people in the Bible. This was a huge disappointment to me, as I have long been a big fan of Mrs. White’s work, and it seemed to come from left field, because there had been nothing of the sort in any of Mrs. White’s other books (of the ones I have read to this point; I have not read them all, but I have read many of them).
Later on, the story took an awkward turn when Libby suddenly discovered the “sport of man watching” and spent a while ogling men’s physiques as they prepared for a boat race. This was completely out of character for her and gave me the willies all over again, but for a different reason.
Soon after that, the story took another turn, this time introducing the very modern ideal of a person’s not being “less.” This ideal only became popular and trendy in the twenty-first century, so I’m not sure why it’s featured in a historical novel set just a few years into the twentieth century.
The modernity slipping into a historical book was the last straw, and I stopped reading the book at 40%, which was around page 154. I was really bummed out today when I decided to stop reading it, because what was supposed to be a fun, enjoyable mystery had not lived up to my expectations.
I really adored the little kitten, but it hardly had enough page time. I wanted much, much more of it. The early beach-combing scene was pretty enjoyable, and I greatly enjoyed the setting of the Scilly Islands. I hope I can find another series of books set on those beautiful isles. ...more
This book was not my cup of tea at all. It was filled with worldly junk and had zero moral code. There was really nothing to like about it. None of thThis book was not my cup of tea at all. It was filled with worldly junk and had zero moral code. There was really nothing to like about it. None of the characters were relatable. The scenarios highlighted the absolute worst of teen clichés and gave a horrible example for how to live one’s life. In addition to that, the language and innuendo, etc., used were uncreative junk scooped up from the gutter and splashed onto the pages.
Content: horrible language (expletives and profanity to excess), pornography, crudity, teen sex [implied only by the time I stopped reading], teen alcohol use and drunkenness, a plethora of religions discussed, and sexual perversion, etc....more
I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley. I appreciate the author’s sweet personality as she helped several of us readers in a GoodI received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley. I appreciate the author’s sweet personality as she helped several of us readers in a Goodreads group gain access to the NetGalley copy of her book for review. She went above and beyond and was very kind through every portion of the discussion.
The cover of this book is gorgeous. I love the light and airy quality of it as well as the “journey” aspect. The color scheme is spot-on, and I love that the cover team captured a whimsical, romantic essence.
After reading the back-cover copy, I was fully prepared to adore this story. Unfortunately, I discovered by chapter three that this was not my style of book after all. I was unaware when I requested it that it featured homosexual characters as the leading lady’s best friends. While some readers may enjoy this book for that very reason, it is not one I desire to read any longer, as it’s not to my taste.
The author’s voice in the first three chapters was quite engaging, and I did feel pulled in to Sophie’s struggles in her job and her yearning to make a name for herself in the food industry, while honoring her grandmother with her own style of cooking.
This book was a miss for me. Mostly, I think it was just not to my taste. There was something I couldn’t quite figure out about it that rubbed me the This book was a miss for me. Mostly, I think it was just not to my taste. There was something I couldn’t quite figure out about it that rubbed me the wrong way. It could have been the suicidal thoughts in the lead that didn’t really match up with her goals. It could have been the inconsistency between the lead having “never wanted to marry” and suddenly deciding to give up everything and marry to “please her father.” It could have been the attempted rape that came out of nowhere with a claim that the lady flirted when there were absolutely no signs of that (she was only taking care of wounded men, as she was instructed by the ship’s captain). It could have been the leading man, who seemed to have split personalities. Things didn’t quite match up about him, as he was a spy trying to do the right thing while in his POV but was apparently a drunken womanizer when other people spoke about him while in the leading lady’s POV. He felt like two different guys, so it was difficult to understand him enough to root for him.
It took me a month to get to page 91 (the start of chapter 11). That is incredibly slow for me, and it isn’t normal to not want to pick up the book. So I chose not to finish it after giving it 10 chapters and nearly 100 pages.
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