The Possessed

I got bored of it and stopped with 50 or 60 pages left. The Possessed is only marginally about adventures or Russian books. Instead it consists mostly of travelogue and a series of Elif's personal stories about her experiences in grad school, with a vague thread of Russianness connecting them all. Some are interesting, some are funny and a few possibly even poignant, but as a cohesive work, the book feel flat with me.