Reader’s Note
8 out of 10
A log, since I can't honestly review it properly.
by@thebigsleepyWritten 18 January 2026Read 15 January 2026
- Started: 14 September
- Finished: 2 May
- Nights on it: somewhere around two hundred and thirty, on and off
- Nights I went under before the pages were done: 41 that I marked in the back, almost certainly more
- Nights I had to reread the night before to know where I was: too many to count, and nearly all of them in the catalogue of ships
- Bookmark: a train ticket to Chester, gone soft as cloth by the end
- Lamp: the small brass one, which my wife says is far too dim and she is right
- Verdict: the fighting blurs together after a while. The grief does not. Priam in the tent asking for his son back was worth the whole winter.
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