YMMV but I was also somewhat bothered by that, powered through it and found that it became less bothersome with time.
The book is good and I would recommend giving it another try.
(Though it’s probably not better than the first Wayfarers book)
It’s already pissed me off so it’s going back to the library so someone else can suffer. The current alluvial plain of Mt. ToBeRead is tall enough.
Such is usually the fate of books that fail to engage us.
Finishing up Julian Vol. III., which includes the following epigram giving the emperor’s views on beer, which he is addressing (and which matches my own views)
Who art thou and whence, O Dionysus? By the true Bacchus I recognize thee not; I knew only the son of Zeus. He smells of nectar, but you smell of goat.
Next up after this is A People’s History of the Vietnam War by Jonathan Neale. This was given to me by someone who just returned from Vietnam, where they picked it up. As you’d expect, it tells the story from a very different slant , which is why I’m interested in it. But the author is American, and the book is part of a series kicked off by Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (and edited by Zinn, as well). Glancing over the reviews, I find them very polarized, as you’d expect, with the majority positive and a minority very negative (but you’d expect that – more people who would view the book positively are ikely to actually pick it up and read it, and subsequently comment). The “antis” cite no only their own interpretation, but point out errors of fact in the book, and that’s harder to dismiss. I’ll have to read it and see.
On audio, I’m listening to Charles Dickens’ A Child’s History of England, which I downloaded from LibriVox. I figured it would be a painless way to pick up a lot of British history I’d never encountered before.
Well
I hadn’t realized just how "Game of Thrones’-y older British history actually was. Saint Dunstan in particular comes across as a monster. Dickens doesn’t shy away from mentioning the atrocities, which is pretty surprising in what’s supposed to be a children’s book. This is proving to be more interesting than I thought it would be.
I finished Starling Hose by Alix E Harrow and…
Yeah, wow, what a let-down that ending was, I don’t even have words for the feeling of let down I feel right now.
Ah well, back to T. Kingfisher!
Finished Dinosaurs, by Walter Jon Williams, which was well done. Also finished Clay: A Human History, by Jennifer Lucy Allan, which was one of the best nonfiction books I’ve read so far this year.
Next: The Big Book of Favorite Horse Stories, edited by P. C. Braun; and Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto, by Leslie Buck.
Decided against reading Wolf Worm with lunch today… 
So I started System COllapse by Martha Wells, last of the Murderbot books until the new one comes out in a couple weeks.
That’s wise.
Started today on the third installment of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook. Reliably dull with the game stuff, but fun with the characters.
Finished The Big Book of Favorite Horse Stories, edited by P. C. Braun, of which my favorite was “Beast of God” by Cecilia Dabrowska. Also finished Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto, by Leslie Buck. The descriptions of Japanese gardens were very interesting.
Next up: The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer; and Alien Clay, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
New thread: All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon, When we’re poisoning pigeons in the park
i read the empyrean series by rebeccah yarrow. all 3 books 4 day. very intense. love the dragons. and now i wait for book 4.
I finished listening to The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen. A pretty good psychological murder mystery, one that I completely missed solving. I’ll read more from this author.
Question for the teeming masses: Has anybody used Kindle’s text-to-speech feature? Does it work okay?
Finished it. It’s pretty good. The last story, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” is about an older man making his peace with the fact that his dementia-suffering wife has formed a romantic bond with another man in her rest home. It was particularly touching and bittersweet.
Next up: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe, nonfiction about the 2019 death of a young London man who was seen leaping into the Thames, and his grieving parents’ attempts to find out if it was suicide or murder. So far, so good.