Beyond Selidor

Oh man, I am so with you on the Harkness books. She's a lovely person and very helpful professionally to a couple of friends of mine, but my god, Twilight for Snobs is poor. The wine conoisseurship and the yoga more or less finished me, but like you I made it into volume two before utterly giving up.

I think these days I tend not to start books I have qualms about, rather than abandoning them. Which is a terrible vice too, considering the depth of my To Read shelves.