i thought the authors name was familiar and when i looked it up i realized i read some of her work as a teen and i was just as not-into-it then

I really tried, and I was interested in the content but the author’s writing style isn’t for me. Feels a bit like they had a thesaurus propped open next to them. I think there’s enough jargon and unfamiliar vocabulary in science non-fiction, I found myself more and more annoyed each time I used the look-up feature on my e-reader just to learn another unnecessary $5 word added into the mix. 

Too much WWI not enough mountain