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Am not reading The Pursuit of Love, I am too lazy to import the proper Penguin paperback edition: ISBN 978-0-14-118149-3

Alexandre Dumas wrote this, not E. L. James, and whoever denies me the privilege of editing this is a fool.

Great fun.

Definitely worth recommending to visitors of London.

TIL Alexandre Dumas was mixed race. So far, getting social studies and history lessons about the island of Mauritius.

Found in a Little Free Library, serendipitously.

This book, admittedly with contradictory findings, convinced me that my fragmented attention isn't altogether my fault, and I can rebuild it. The author discusses among other social media platforms the commoditized, centralized Twitter, but not Mastodon. I know I'm better off spending more time reading real books than I do scrolling through timelines, regaining my focus and reclaiming my attention are my pre-eminent intentions for 2023.

Uneven, mostly good, US-centric. I learned some things and am recommending to or at least discussing with my best buddies.

Nine pages in and already I can see how the facts and life lessons and studies within will transform my friendships and connections.

This is not her best, Dame Agatha must have been moved to write about postwar survivors, and worked in Hercule Poirot close to the end. The very end appalled this 21st-century reader, but I don't know how it is to serve for years in a world war.

oh boy what improvement in my life if I could remember daily 5% of this. Found a good translation into modern idiomatic English, indeed hardly anything changes.

reading 2002 Modern Library Edition, a new translation and introduction by Gregory Hays