It's always lovely to read something written by one whom I know personally. I wonder if it doesn't do something to salve the three body problem of author-reader-work. For me, this book and the author are not two bodies, or perhaps they are simply orbiting each other so closely that they functionally operate as one. The calculations, to abuse the metaphor, are correspondingly simple.
I know this author well enough that nothing in the book is surprising. It is all part of one system, but it is one that is far more intricate and fascinating than would be visible from a distance. She is a binary system, or perhaps more. Perhaps, in fact, it is more correct to say that this book is not a body in her orbit, but it is the expression of the force exerted by the binary system.
I'm sure I could go on with this, but I am already sick of my pedantry. It's a good book. Read it.
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