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For Christmas my husband got me a night alone in a hotel. I of course brought plenty of reading material. Feeling refreshed.

I had very mixed reactions to this book. There were parts which were intriguing and mind stretching, where I couldn't wait to see how the story would develop and there were lots of rabbitholes to go down and then there were parts where the ornate poeticism just made feel I couldn't take much more and want to give it up. I'm really not sure whether pick or pan is appropriate, but apparently I have to choose something, so pick

So true for most of us 😀

Book to book links:
Pierce is reading Soledades (1613) by Góngora (Spanish poet)

I thought this was the whole tetralogy in one ebook but it's just the first volume.

Another new word for me, yegg

"what mattered most in mastering history (as opposed to understanding it) was to have a clear hypothesis, a general picture, an account: a story, whose episodes flowed one from another, linked yet distinct like chapters:"

"It was her mother‘s cicisbeo, Sid, who was also Pierce‘s friend and landlord, who first brought her and Pierce together;"
Cicisbeo - lover, gallant

Backlist time: my first John Crowley.