All’s Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare, published 1623, play, 89 pages. It’s based on a story from The Decameron and is one of Shakespeare’s comedies, so I probably don’t need to elaborate further because what follows is surely not a surprise, but I will nevertheless because I am that kind of person: meh. And now, with that stunningly explicatory elaboration taken care of, let’s move on. Desperate Remedies, by Thomas Hardy, published 1871, fiction, 538 pages. Quite liked it. Good prose. The second half turned out to be more of a thriller than I expected. Looking forward to reading the rest of Hardy (for the prose and the characters, not the thrillerness), which I’m planning to do in publication order, as is now often my custom. Also, I didn’t expect to come across a “dang it” in the book. Apparently the phrase is not as modern as I thought. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization, by Ed Conway, published 2023, nonfiction, 518 pages. Fascinating…
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