Books - What are you reading?

I think he does this fairly often. He'll grab a premise that he seems quite pleased with and then repeat it every few pages.

I went through the 'Service Model' freebie chapter and there's an initial bit about the servant having a set of protocols that prevent them from being able to address obviously ridiculous situations, and just going through the motions each time. Making an unused bed daily because he was once told to do that and nobody revoked the instruction. The point is made pretty early on but then they make about another dozen examples of it and every time re-explain that it's a bit silly but nobody has told them otherwise.

Other bit I noticed in Children of Time where it's a female dominated society. So he brings up a few examples... men staying home to watch the house etc, the females being stronger fighters etc.
But then every other example where he's switched traditional gender roles is then re-explained as that, or we get the internal monologue each time about how unhelpful the stereotypes might be to an evolving society.

I rattled through a few others of his before and similar examples of the 'let me tell you dear reader' in Ogres and Dogs of War

Still quite like the books generally, but those bits feel slightly forced, or that he assumes the reader might forget the really obvious commentary he's already made a few times.