Reading progress update: I've listened 41 out of 421 minutes.

This has been keeping me company on the drive to work and has caused outright snickering a few times. It is totally charming. It feels a little like Harry Potter in the descriptions of people, but with these charmingly rambly footnotes regarding history, religion, and astronomy, all done with this very tongue-in-cheek tone.
I can't wait to see what happens next.