By the way, my mother is loving my new book. This is a great sign because it’s aimed at regular people, not academics.
She says it sounds like my father wrote it which is a great compliment because he’s the smartest person I ever met.
My mother isn’t normally generous with compliments, to put it very mildly. So it’s not like she’s blinded by maternal love and can’t be objective. She’s…. erm…. not like that, so to speak.