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Apr 21, 2016 09:52PM
I'm not sure when people wish to start this one, but since I'm all out of whack, I thought I'd post this thread now. Read away!
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I will start mine May 1st, or maybe May 2. : )
Great! I will look forward to your thoughts. I'm still mulling over this one .....
Well, I think Ruth has finished this one, so I'll link my review: http://cleoclassical.blogspot.ca/2016...While I liked her Waldenesque view of solitude, the depression and angst that permeated the pages rather disturbed me. Thankfully, due to my library ILL issues, I read this book before Malcolm X; reversed, I think I would have enjoyed it less. Sarton has some very insightful things to say, but very little sense of joy ever leapt off the pages. In fact, she said she was trying to correct the rose-coloured view of herself from one of her other books. I would say she certainly was successful.
