Checking Out a Free Google Book

Trying out the free Google Books this week, I chose “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain. I didn’t pick it totally at random, but it was the first free book with an author I recognized. So far, it has had its moments and a few funny jabs at the political and religious leadership. Some of the descriptions of the settings are detailed to the point of slowing down the story. The narrator has finally realized that he isn’t dreaming or in an asylum and is planning to use an upcoming solar eclipse to convince his would-be executioners that he is a more-powerful wizard than Merlin. The only trouble I have with reading this in my spare time rather than in a longer chunk of time is that it’s hard to get back into the story the next time I read. Despite reading a few pages whenever I got the chance every day, sometimes it was tough to remember just what had happened on my last reading break and I spent too long checking the pages before to see who was who. I think the story would be better and easier to “get into” if one tried to read it all at once or at least not while waiting on classes and other short breaks like that.