![]() ![]() My thought process through this hour went something like: What is going on? Are these quotes from real books, or imaginary ones? What even does the phrase ‘op cit’ mean? I’ve heard it 1000 times already and I’m quite worried that something has gone wrong with the audio book and I’m just being read a long list of footnotes. A lot of the first 15 short chapters are quotes from other sources. ![]() It starts of as an extremely difficult listen – this could probably be avoided by knowing something about the unusual structure of the book before beginning to listen to it. I listened to an audio book of Lincoln in the Bardo. The backdrop to these events is the American Civil War. Over the course of his first night in the Bardo, his father visits his corpse several times. While he is between these worlds – in the Bardo – he meets many of the other inhabitants of this in-between place. Lincoln In The Bardo is a lovely, interesting, odd book about the transition of Abraham Lincoln’s beloved son, Willie, between the world of the living and the world of the dead. ![]()
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