The Sagan Diary [With Earbuds] Book

"Words fail me. There is a disconnect between my mind and my words; between what I think and what I say. Not a disconnect in intent, but in execution. Between the flower of thought and the fruit of the mouth. Between the initiation and the completion."

Jane Sagan is interesting, decisive, ethical and yet willing to be a soldier with all that entails. She's a woman of action, and even when she stops to think on something, there is a tight efficiency to her whole manner and being. I just don't believe she would ever be the author of this kind of self-indulgent, navel-gazing diary.

(This was originally a longer and sharper review. I've edited it because the book was basically a thought experiment - and a deliberate departure from the main storyline - and I think I was being too harsh. I've been reminded by his newer books just how much I like Scalzi's stories.)