re: What are you reading?

Project Hail Mary kind of made me glaze over in the middle with all the space jargon

But stick with it, it has one of the best endings to a book I’ve read in a long time . I think about it often actually

Also: just missed out on a signed copy of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Kinda bummed but oh well. Got this 1,000
Page behemoth secured this morning

The passion according to GH

pretty good.

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch

Lost mans lane - Scott carsont

I read True Girt so quickly the other weekend that I decided to go pick up the novel I remembered reading the fastest before it. I'm almost half way through ITA now. It's a good one that everyone should at least try to read once. Krakauer is a very good storyteller.

Grant - Ron Chernow and Dark Forge (Master's and Mages #2) -Miles Cameron.

Ethan Fromm

So I just finished reading Ethan Frome, and I came away pretty horrified-and I devour classic literature. I have never been so unsympathetic to a protagonist that was not explicitly written to be the anti-hero, unless Wharton was intending that, but it does not really appear so, especially as I read somewhere that she was critical of society's obsession with keeping unhappy marriages together. I have only read one other Wharton book before, Summer, so I am aware that she is fine with bleak endings, but still. Anyway, I kept thinking throughout how this book could VERY easily be written from Mattie or Zenna's POV or even both SPOILER that demonstrates how Ethan fell out of love with his wife when she got sick, and then preyed on a younger dependent in his house. Zenna sending Mattie away could be to get her out of her predator's way, and Mattie's agreement to the suicide pact could be to save the next girl from his unwanted attentions. Has such a book been written, I wonder?