This book is part memoir, part historical, part etymological and part big long list of mostly very loosely related words. The parts that are memoir are great. The history and etymology are interesting. If that‘s what this book was, it would be great. After the first few chapters, the book is mostly big long lists of words in paragraph form. It‘s tiring and not what I thought I was getting myself into. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻