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Location:Boston, MA

mafo's Books by Status

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Champlain's Dream
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Isola
Greek Lessons
The Witchstone

mafo's Reading Goals

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13/39 books
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2025 Reading Goal

Read 39 books by . You're right on schedule! 🙌

mafo's Most Popular Reviews

Good book, bad mystery

Thesis not particularly supported, but interesting vignettes.

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I thought the parts about her childhood in the Bronx were very compelling and novel-like, but the unending cliches, gratuitous nostalgia and self-back-patting made it hard for me to finish. “How Great I Am” might be a more appropriate title.

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Starts stupid. I ended up liking it a lot, but the first few chapters read very self-involved, and are sorta weirdly less well written. But stick with it!