Reading progress update: I've read 98 out of 577 pages.
Finally back after a hectic week. Just going to do a few quick things now that I'm settled in:
-- DNF @ 98 / 577.
Why? Because the pace dragged and the writing put me to sleep. It was wordy in the vein of using two paragraphs where two sentences would have sufficed, where at other times I would have LIKED more explanation.