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One of narrators of this audiobook read the Dune audiobooks! It's basically like being read to by the Sheriff of Rottingham.

I don't mean to keep bumping this up but I don't know how to edit comments on the app! I finished it tonight and let me say: it is a great choice for the week where we pick a book with a love triangle in it! It is written in a easy to understand and straightforward manner, but not plainly or unintelligently. There's little plot, and although it's a book based on Margaret Mead she's a side character. My one beef with this book is its end which (view spoiler)[ is, as Ann Shirley would say, tragical. Nell dies, presumably during a miscarriage but possibly murdered by her husband, her body unceremoniously dumped at sea, and Andrew never sees her again. In real life, Margaret Mead married the Andrew character and she did get the child she wants so bad in the book. Other than wrapping up the story a bit neater, I don't see why the author did this. Why be so faithful to Mead's research and experiences, which she reportedly was, and then make the story a wholly unrealistic tragedy? It's a bummer, man. Although I got the sense that this story was more about people being in love with ideas than people being in love with other people. There's sex in the book but its more to reveal character traits or culture and wasn't very sexy, at least to me. (hide spoiler)] It's a nice little book, at less than 250 pages, and not a bad story. Triggers: moderate descriptions of suicide and implied spousal abuse.

Since I have it checked out of the library already I am going with Anne Shirley to college in Anne of the Islands! Doesn't fit the week but I never dreamed I'd finish a book so early and couldn't get a more recent book from the library on such short notice.

Anne of the Islands is no placid dream like the second book. (view spoiler)[ Hanging out in graveyards? Killing off one of Anne's friends (a good pro-vaccination ad)? Philippa Gregory: casual cat murder?!?! (hide spoiler)] The baking soda part is funny, but this is the last Anne book for me. Not because of all the more serious subjects- I just think its a typical sequel thing. It's peaked.

(view spoiler)[ CASUAL DOG MURDER? metaphorically dropkicks Ann of the Island into the fire* (hide spoiler)] I am done with the quaint life of rural 1900's Canada. Wanton violence against animals really gets stuck in my craw.