Down Time
Down Time
book by Andrew Martin
Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.
Quick Lit Reviews
Quick Lit Short and Sweet Reviews, April 2026
Short reviews of six books I read over the last month and a half — Sisters in Yellow, Last Night in Brooklyn, The Witch, Vigil, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and Down Time.
Depression, it was dawning on me, might simply be the absence of champagne, drugs, and friendly acquaintances with whom to share them.
Down Time by Andrew Martin
Maggie spent her time trying to solve problems; she’d be the person trying to untangle the ropes for the lifeboats as the crew sang plaintive death songs up on deck.